My sister and her husband have come out to visit and snowboard this week. Meanwhile my sister has appropriated my red and black hat (made from KnitPicks Andean Silk). So I had to knit a hat for her. We went to Soul Spun Yarns and bought some red and black Berocco Peruvia. Peruvia is a worstedish single that is slightly heathered and very soft. I also bought brown, green and orange. At $8 for 100gms it’s a decent price.
Vanessa gave me free reign to do whatever I wanted. So last night I got about 2 inches of black done. I wanted to try my hand at some fair isle so I got out some books and looked for a pattern. I found a simple one with 2 colors and a 12 stitch repeat which was perfect for this 72 stitch hat.
This morning I started working on it and fair isle was faster than I expected. I used the 2 handed technique, and while I threw the yarn the wrong way the first row, I quickly got the rhythm. So this yarn is a little fuzzy for doing fair isle, but I still like the way it turned out.
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