I know I’m a bit late for Hanukkah, but I’m in time for the other solstice mid-winter gift-giving extravaganzas!
I have a few books to give away – none of them mine – but all of them very nice!
I’ll give away one every few days so I can get them shipped to you by Christmas (or whatever holiday you celebrate!) Ideally, if you win one of them it will be a lovely gift for YOU!
ONE + ONE HATS
This is another one of Iris Schreier’s books which use her lovely Artyarns and focus on projects which use a limited amount of yarn.
The specifications for these designs were hats which use ONLY two balls of yarn.
I have two hats in the book, which makes me very proud and happy!
The first is a color work toque (square top) shape. The lighter color is variegated, the dark is a semi-solid, with a squarish top and garter / i-cord trim at the bottom.
The second hat is inspired by a military hat, and because the side flaps can be worn up or down, I used a reversible cable technique. It was my first time using it in a design, I feel that it worked very nicely.
I created the reversible cable by working cables over a 2×2 rib, and being careful with the placement of the yarn as I form each cable.
Here’s the chart (you may find it helpful, or it may make your head spin!) so you can get an idea of how I think through the reversible cables.
YOU could be the happy recipient of this book – all you have to do is leave a comment and tell me about your favorite hat of all time! It doesn’t have to be a knit hat, or even one that you’ve owned – just a hat that has meant something to you!
Leave a comment below, and I’ll select a winner and send the book off on Friday. If your name is chosen and you live out of the USA, I’ll ask you to split the shipping charge ($5 from each of us), otherwise the shipping will be on me! (When you put your email in the specified field, no one can see it but me!)
I’ll have two more books to share with you over the next few weeks, now tell me about a great hat!
Oh I love making hats! And my husband loves wearing the ones I make!
My favorite hat is my Diamond Cap hat. It was my very first for sale pattern so it has a special place in my heart.
My favorite hat was a felt beret I had in high school…
great giveaway! I have the shawls book and love it.
My favorite hat was a white crocheted tam my mother made for me in middle school.
I wore it so much, by the end of the season, there was no saving it. LOL I still don’t know why she thought white would be a good color for a tomboy like me
My favorite hat is a custom-made “crown” that i made with my children for my sister’s 50th birthday. We held a ceremony to crown her “the Queen of Herself” per the philosophy of the great urban shaman Mamma Donna (www.thequeenofmyself.com). The “crown” was a small-brimmed light summer white hat, topped with a knitted Artyarns silk/mohair bow and a lavish arrangement of pheasant feathers. My sister loved it, and the crowning ceremony!
My favorite hat of all time was one that my aunt made for me when I was in 4th or 5th grade. It was knit on a head band that was popular at the time & then had a long tail like a ski hat (sorry – terrible description). I loved that it was knit with 2 strands – red & white! I liked it so much that I knitted one like it for my doll. I was a much braver knitter 55+ years ago than I am now! I still have the doll hat.
This is more a favorite hat of my husbands. I will try to condense. His mom knit him a balaclava when he was in grade school. When he got older he didn’t like it anymore so, with money being tight on the farm, she sewed up the eyes and mouth and it turned into a basic hat. LOL He wore that hat for years even after our kids were born and in school as well. Then one day it went missing. To his horror. His favorite hat gone missing. Weeks went by and one day while visiting the farm his mom said I found this I believe it belongs to you. LOL She stepped out of the truck at our local Coop store and laying on the ground in the snow was this ugly teal and yellow hand knit antique hat. LOL He still wears it. I can’t make anything for him. Its that hat or nothing. Russ’ mom doesn’t knit mitts or hats anymore but that hat will live on forever.
My favorite hat depends on how cold it is. Currently I have been wearing a knitted rolled brim hat made from local wool. Also wear an alpaca hat that is loose and slouchy. thanks
My Favorite hat was called The postoffice hat. I crocheted it in a cashmere blend. A very warm hat.
My knitting BFF loves knitting hats. I’d love to add this book to her Christmas present.
Such lovely hats … it will make happy everyone … for sure!!!!!!!!!!
I think my favorite hat right now (it varies) is my Peerie Flooers.
I love making baby hats, and my current favorite is an adorable pattern with a swizzle top and color work all around. So cute!!
My fav hat is one that my Auntie Chrissy gave me yeeeeears ago. It is a felt brim hat with a scarf/neckwarmer attached. So warm and (despite my poor description) looks classy. My fav knitted (by me) hat is a russian looking thingy with fun fur brim. <3
The cable hat is especially lovely. Thanks. I follow and enjoy your Twitter feed and your politics and the fact that you live in Minneapolis. Whenever I’m there visiting I try to stop in a new LYS and have found a few through your mentions.
My favorite hat style is a cloche. It’s on my to-be-knitted list.
DD just bought a hat with a big pom pom and long cords with pom poms. It has “I need a vacation” knit across the top. I think we can all relate to that :).
I don’t really have a favorite hat. My husband says I look great in them, but I never seem to find one I think suits me. That doesn’t stop me from making them, though. The current one I hope grows on me is a berry colored beret made out of a mohair and sparkle yarn.
I just love love love your patterns!!!!!!! And hats are so much fun to knit and give as gifties.
It’s not knitted…it’s a bowler and it looks great with a big ole hand-did scarf!
i use to collect vintage hats with their hat boxes! tres chic but not very warm….
i love your color work toque hat….beautiful…reminds me of a sikke hat…that sufi’s wear….
My favorite hat is the one my oldest son received when he was in the NICU. It represents many things to me, one of which is the kindness of strangers, and I will cherish it always. Btw, he is now 10 years old and doing great!
My favorite was a very structured mostly-cotton brimmed hat I made for a friend. Always intended to make one for me: I don’t know why I haven’t yet.
I love to knit hats and just found out this year that I have been knitting combination method all these years due to a year spent trying to learn continental style.
Favorite hat is a boiled wool, navy blue hat that went with a dress coat. The coat is long out of style, but the hat endures.
I love hats too. I make lots of them both knit and sewn and i wear them all the time. The best hat I own is one I bought (go figure!). I like it becasue it’s warm and stylish and it doesn’t crash my hair. I get compliments every single time I wear it.
My favorite hat is one I just received. We are military and were stationed in Germany until this spring when I was diagnosed with cancer. We quickly moved back to the States to start chemo, and my amazing, wonderful German knitting group spent their weekly meetings during the summer and early fall knitting a few rows each and adding their own personal touches and design features. I received it a few months ago, and every time it warms my bald head, the ladies’ generosity and love equally warms my heart.
My very favorite hat was a wide brimmed straw hat that I wore many years (and many pounds) ago. Nothing else has made me feel so stylish. But I have a beret that I can wear now, and it brings back a bit of that feeling when I tuck my hair in just so, and tilt the hat to the side…
I would love to accomplish the reversible cable hat for the cold weather coming. The hat looks cozy in that lovely blue yarn, and I’d love to learn the technique to knit the cables.
My favorite hat is one I knit 20+ years ago while my husband and I were living in Maine ! We were heading on a cross country trip and I needed a good knit so I took some Maine wool – sport and Meg Swansen’s hat “dubblemousse” – [sorry about the spelling] and I knit it. At home the next winter I put it on and hardly took it off – 4 layers of lovely wool over my ears was wonderful ! So cozy and warm and the hat was quite attractive as well.
My favorite hat is a floppy red cotton number that I made a couple of years ago. 🙂
My favorite hat is the slouch hat I knit for my sister out of denim yarn. She’s been fighting ovarian cancer for the past two years and has been bald several times due treatments. The denim is not only for softness but because she’s in Southern California… not many chances to wear wool!
The first hat that popped into my head was a navy wool cap/bonnet that matched a beautiful, lined jacket. The outfit was a gift for my first baby. All three of my kidswore it and it is now packed away for grandchildren.
My Granny was a very very cool lady. She used to give me quarters to get on the path and go to Manhattan on boring school days. We once went to the village together and I spotted this hat a lady was wearing in a coffee shop, it was beautiful. It was a very very hippie hat all ruffled and floppy with lots of colors. Granny went up to the lady and asked to look the hat over and the next week she had made me something reasonably like it. I loved it even more. I still have and when ever I open that drawer it make me smile.
I love making hats most of all. I’d love to win this book. Thanks!
My favorite hat is my Tilley hat. It has a wide brim to shade both my eyes and the back of my neck. It also allows me to show my love of country by wearing a red, white, and blue braid around the crown. Thanks for the contest! I’ll look for this book out in the wild, and especially your patterns.
My Favorite hat is a wool one I picked up in Scotland when I was 17. Its not my color or my style, but I love it for the memories 🙂
Carol Channing – Hello Dolly. What can I say?!
I would love that book. 🙂
Tom, one of my wordpress plug-ins is called “Hello, Dolly” whereby each time I refresh my screen as I work on my websites, a line from the song, “Hello, Dolly!” pops up in the upper right corner of my dashboard. Current line: “I can tell, Dolly”
Jared Flood’s Four Square. I love how they fit at the crown. I have probably made ten of them, some with matching glittens.
My favorite hat was the one I just made — a simple rolled-brim knit — for my new grandson!
I went to a renaissance faire with my family when I was a little kid in the 70’s. When they were still cool and full of artisans and hand-made crafts. I found an amazing, puffy, velvety hat with a huge feather through it, sat down in front of it, and refused to move (this was being a very bad girl, as I was one of 6 kids and we didn’t have much money, but I’d seen Olivia do it on The Waltons – apparently it was called a Sit-Down Strike – so I figured I’d try it). Didn’t go over well, but my mom made one for my next birthday, and I still have it. I also have TUBS of hats I’ve made since, but that is still my favorite.
Thanks that would be great! My favourite hat has to be the handspun aran beret knitted by a dear Aunt who is no longer with us. Has to be my most worn. Not at mo of course so hot here!
Cheers
I was a fairly new spinner in 1982. I had spun wool and had heard that you could spin dog hair. With a new collie, Jack, in the household, I had plenty of hair to spin. I spun Jack’s hair and knit a simple hat. What a lovely hat it was – soft, warm, and ultra fluffy. With that simple start I moved on to spin dog hair for others for a number of years. I spun hundreds of pounds of yarn and made many other hats and items. But the item I prize the most and still use is Jack’s hat. He was a wonderful dog and a loving companion. Every winter he still hugs my head and keeps me warm. Thanks, Jack.
My favorite hat is not one I’ve made… it’s a green brushed felt narrow brimmed fedora that belonged to my Grandfather. It’s snazzy and stylish. It fits my head perfectly. It reminds me of my Grampa.
And… who doesn’t look good in a fedora?
My favorite hat actually doesn’t belong to me. I was singing karaoke at my favorite bar after cutting most of my hair off and I wasn’t really thrilled about my hair in its natural state. The KJ (a dear friend of mine) had borrowed his son’s fedora for the night, and at one point he put it on my head. Why, who knows? But I got a TON of compliments on how good my hair looked curly and short once the hat was on. It gave me a much-needed confidence boost.
Hmmm…. favorite hat…. don’t wear many, it’s too warm here. But there was a memorable moment with a felt fedora on the first date with my husband. And, as far as memorable hats, I’ve been knitting volcano hats. I think they’re pretty cool.
My favorite hat was probably the bomber hat I knitted and gave away. The joy on the recipient’s face when he saw it was amazing!
My favorite hat was a give away. I gave it as a gift to a close friend. It was a baby hat with a great white shark on it. I created the pattern myself and was a gateway of just going for it and designing what I wanted.
http://www.ravelry.com/projects/Berrygal/great-white-shark
I bought a hat when I was on the island of North Ronaldsay a few years ago. Loved the hat and wore it regularly to walk the dogs. It was cabled, made from wool from the North Ronaldsay sheep and extremely warm. The cables also keep the wind out. One of my lovely foster dogs, a cairn terrier named Waldo, ate it.
I made a Fair Isle hat with flowers on it made with black and Knit Picks Chroma rainbow striping yarn and it got a First place blue ribbon at the County Fair. Thanks!
My most-worn hat is not knitterly at all, but is a rugged canvas one that keeps the sun and wind off me when I’m out of doors. I think my favorite hat is one I had as a child–my sister and I had matching long stocking hats. We absolutely adored them!