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Hats are the ultimate knitting projects. They are small enough to fit in a pocket, they are usually knit in the round, they don\u2019t have to be matched with a twin, you can experiment with difficult techniques without giving up and you can finish them within a week. Join me in my daily hat parade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It all started with the Waiting for rain shawl<\/a> I knit in November, from stashed and ripped handspun yarns. When I had finished it there was still yarn left, so I knit a hat. And another. And another. Suddenly I stand here with seven hats that I have knit during November and December from my stashed handspun yarns. That\u2019s a daily hat for every day of the week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A daily hat for the whole week, all from my handspun stashed yarns.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Stranded knitting and Algae<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The first hat I fell for was Algae<\/a> by Marie Amelie designs. It\u2019s a stranded colourwork hat with an algae pattern, which suits my daily dip in the lake perfectly. The folded brim together with the stranded colourwork keeps my head toasty and warm on even the coldest of days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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TheAlgae hat has a stranded colourwork algae pattern and is nice and warm.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The original pattern is knit in a white main colour and yellow background colour. I chose three different background colors that on a sunny day resemble the colour of the water. I used all three of them in the Waiting for rain<\/a> shawl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The algae hat fits my daily dips perfectly in both design and warmth.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Algae hat has quickly become my favourite hat for this time of year. The folded brim is soft and gentle and I love the colour scheme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mindless ribbing hipster hat<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I have knit a couple of hats for my husband, but they are all starting to fall apart. I wanted to knit him a new one, a fairly plain hat. The HipsterHat<\/a> by PetiteKnit was my choice, together with a soft 2-ply yarn I spun ages ago from an Shetland Eskit fleece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The HipsterHat is warm and cozy and can be worn unfolded or with a single and double fold.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This was a mindless knit, just the 2×2 ribbing all the way plus some sweet decreases towards the crown. I love how the hat can be worn in different ways \u2013 straight, folded or double folded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arkanoid garter building blocks<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I have always been curious about Woolly Wormhead\u2019s<\/a> hat patterns, so I searched among her hat designs. I wanted to knit something for my son who is an architect student. Woolly Wormhead calls herself a hat architect and the Arkanoid<\/a> pattern resembles a brick Wall, so the match was perfect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Just the ringht amoung of slouch in the Arkanoid hat.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The yarn I used was a 2-ply finull yarn I spun a couple of years ago and dyed in an ice bath with fresh indigo leaves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greystone cables<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

My daughter has sensitive skin, so I used the softest handspun I could find for her, Swedish J\u00e4mtland wool. I had ripped this yarn from an older project. Since the yarn was so fine I held it double throughout the knitting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I used the softest yarn I could find for a cabled hat in natural white for my daughter who has sensitive skin.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I chose the Greystone hat pattern by Melissa Thomson (Sweet fiber), a fairly simple cable pattern. My daughter is quite picky, but I hope a subtle cabled natural white hat works for her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jessica Jones and linen stitch<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Okay, so if a hat is called If Jessica Jones had a hat (by SMIN\u00c9), don\u2019t you just have to knit it? I know I do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Both the linen stitch and the envelope crown were new to me. While I didn’t enjoy the slowness of the knitting, I love how my If Jessica Jones had a hat hat turned out.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The hat is knit in linen stitch, which gives the loveliest weave-like structure. The pattern is knit one, slip one with the yarn in front, from bottom to top. This took ages. The moving of the yarn from back to front and back again slowed the pace down, but I do love the result. The yarn I used (the same yarn as in the brim of the algae hat) was very fine, so I held it double. I realized there was a risk there wouldn’t be enough yarn for the whole hat, so I started to think about what colour to use for the crown, but in the end there was just enough yarn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Growing plants<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I had a few skeins of gradient yarn from a brown fleece I had sorted into different shades. I wanted to use the gradient in another hat, and I chose the Gro hat<\/a> by Fiber Tales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My Gro hat in a gradient of browns from one and the same sheep. To the right the Gro hat together with the Greystone hat, in my favourite hat blocking setup.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I started at the brim with the darkest colour and ended two shades later at the crown. The pattern is sort of a cable pattern with grass-like plants. The pattern also includes knitting three stitches together right after a cable, which was quite cumbersome, at least the way I did it. So not the most comfortable and swift knit, but I love the design and my subtle gradient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shortrows and Rhinebeck<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Another Woolly Wormhead design is the Rhinebeck hat<\/a>, this time with an intricate bauble pattern made sideways with a gazillion shortrows. The pattern description looks daunting with its 88 row pattern repeat for 13 panels, but once you get the hang of it you can knit it with relative ease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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At first I was reluctant, I didn’t want it to look too loud. After having browsed through the projects on Ravelry I knew how I wanted to combine the colours. I chose blue-ish and brown colours for the baubles and white for the stripes to keep it all together. I love the result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My plan is to hang the hats in the Christmas tree and let my family find them. Perhaps they go for the hats I had in mind for them, perhaps they surprise me. I\u2019m keeping the Algae for myself, though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Happy spinning!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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