Copyright Marnie MacLean 2004
Click on Images for Larger View
Imagine
a
placid lake at sunset, lily pads floating on the surface. Specs of light flicker
across the water and fading sunlight catch a drop on a petal. That's what I
envision while knitting this hat.
I've worked it from the top down but the chart allows you to easily reverse the directions to work bottom up or in the round from either direction. One note, though, if you work it in the round, don't forget to remove the extra selvage stitch on each end of the pattern.
Gauge:
20st x 24 rows = 4"
Supplies:
- 1 skein of Filatura Lanarota Rainbow in Soft Lilac
- Less than 1 skein of Filatura Lanarota Rainbow in Natural
- Less than 1 skein of Filatura Lanarota Rainbow in Soft Green
- #7 needles (straight or circular)
- 6 Yellow Glass beads
- 6 White sequins
- Thread
- Tapestry needle
- Sewing needle small enough to slip through hole in beads
Stitches used:
- STst
- 1 x 1 rib
- Inc (Knit in front and back of stitch)
- Double Increase (Knit in Front, Back, and Front of designated stitch)
- Garter Stitch
- K2tog
Hat
Click the image to the right to download the PDF chart.
Cast on 14 stitches and knit from the top down, increasing by working a double increase in the stitches located where the 4 single columns of stitches are shown in the chart.
Work to ribbing. With same needle work K1P1 ribbing finishing with bind off of choice.
Flower
Based
on the flowers in Nicky
Epstein's book:
Nicky
Epstein's Knitted Embellishments: 350 Appliques, Borders, Cords and More!
With green yarn:
CO 3 stitch.
Working in Garter St, Inc in first stitch of every row until you have 10 stitches
total.
Snip yarn and repeat 4 more times, but don't cut yarn on last leaf.
Place all five petals on a single needle and knit across all stitches.
Work 3 more rows of Garter
*K2tog across entire row* x2
Cut yarn and draw through all remaining stitches.
With white yarn:
CO 5 stitches
Inc at beginning of every row to 9 stitches
Snip yarn and repeat 4 more times, but don't cut yarn on last petal.
Place all five petals on a single needle and knit across all stitches.
*K2tog across entire row* x2
Cut yarn and draw through all remaining stitches.
Finishing
Sew up back seam of hat
Sew in all ends with a tapestry needle.
Attach white flower to green leaves
With needle and thread, knot end of thread and draw through back of flower, at center. Thread on one sequin and one yellow bead. Bring thread back through sequin hole and back through flower.
Repeat process with the other five beads/sequins attaching them in a circle around center bead. Please refer to images for reference.
Attach flower to hat VERY SECURLY. The flower is fairly heavy, so err on the side of caution and really get that sucker well secured.
Thank you so much for your interest in my patterns. Most of my free patterns were efforts to learn to design and do not conform to industry standards for sizing or terminology. Enough people continue to knit from these designs that I am happy to leave these patterns up for people to use but I cannot offer any amendments or substantial support for them.
As with all my patterns, you are welcome to use these patterns for your own personal, non-commercial or charitable use. If you wish to sell items made from these patterns or teach classes using my patterns, please contact me. Please do not distribute this pattern in print or electronically or post this pattern to your own site or publication. If you wish to share this pattern, please send the person a link to my site.