Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from February 9, 2015

Still snowing, Simple Snowflake Revisited

Back in December I tried out some stranded colorwork, a Snowflake patterned hat by  LaVon Murphy .   That post is here   if you would like to see it.  In case you haven't heard, Maine has been hit with successive snowstorms since Thanksgiving. We have so much snow, it's getting hard to find places to put it all! I really wanted to do another of the snowflake hats, since I was so in love with the blue and white one from my previous post. Fortunately for me, my daughter decided that she would like one. We went into my yarn stash and she picked out her colors. The result is below. I love how it came out! I used a basic worsted for each of the colors. The top is a little pointy, and you can either block it to sit flatter, or put a tassle or pom-pom on the top. My daughter liked hers plain.  The Simple Snowflake  pattern   can be found on Ravelry. You do need an account to get the pattern from there, but it's free, and it's a fun place to meet other knitte