Cimorene

One of my new Addi sock needles broke right at the end of the first sock (it was bamboo)! I didn't want to knit the second sock with a straight sock needle so I put it aside temporarily and started another hat. (I bought yarn for three hats last fall. I had already finished the first one.) My sister gave me a Finnish Yarn Store gift card for the holidays so I am just waiting for the store to restock CrasyTrios before I order (they're out of all sizes but the smallest right now, so I guess in a way this is good...? Maybe there's higher demand than people were expecting? And maybe that will lead to bigger orders and/or greater production, hence greater availability?).

My new green hat linked above LOOKS like the traditional folded-brim beanie exemplified by the Musselburgh pattern (Ysolda Teague), which I knitted last summer as a present for my dad:



... This sort of hat was traditionally made of just a really long knitted tube folded in half inside itself, so the right side was facing both in and out, ends sewn together, and you still see inferior mass-produced hats made this way, that is, cut and sewn on a sewing machine, so you can see the bulk of the seams at the crown (this is sadly typical for mass-produced store-bought hats nowadays). Ysolda's pattern starts from a center-out cast-on, increases to the full width, then knits the tube, then decreases back to a point and weaves the ends in. You fold it after the fact and the fact that the inside and outside are decreased separately before nesting makes the result reversible, because there are no seams sticking out on the inside.

But my green hat above is made with PetiteKnit's Oslo hat pattern, which is an attempt to make a hat that looks like this but isn't quite so warm: the top part of the hat is a single knitted layer and only the brim is doubled (but because it's then folded up, it's actually a triple layer over the ears). I wanted to make one of each, to see which I liked better, only then I couldn't decide on only two colors and ordered enough for three hats instead.

The gold one I'm working on now is a Musselburgh again, and it's a lot of plain stockinette in the middle, so... boring. Except for Tristana, who is always watching for someone to look away from their knitting for JUST long enough for her to sneakily chew off the working yarn.