I am so happy with how this pattern came out!

More info to come when the pattern gets posted on Ravelry…

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I’m baaaack!  Zinnia Dahlia is now a free pdf on Ravelry, and you can get it by clicking here. 

How did this design come about, you ask?  Well, my husband’s brother’s girlfriend asked me if I could knit a hat like…and emailed me a picture taken from quite a distance away.  I could tell that it was waffley, and had a bit of a brim, and I knew she wanted to wear it with the brim in back, so I started thinking about a way to make the barest glimmer of a brim.  Short rows to the rescue!  That bit of the pattern looks intimidating, with 20 steps, but so long as they’re followed, creating the rolled brim should be a piece of cake.

The body of the hat is based on the Mock Honeycomb stitch pattern at Knitting on the Net.  I converted it to knit in the round, and in so doing also decreased the row count for the pattern by 6 rows. 

Sizes, you ask?  The pattern is worked over 8 stitches, so I checked my gauge and multiplied.  Instructions cover 16-24″ heads.  If you want smaller, decrease by 8 stitches.  If you want bigger, increase by 8 stitches.

Happy Knitting!

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Erm, did I forget to actually say why I got the design out of my head and onto paper?  Well, that has to do with the Malabrigo Junkies group on Ravelry.  Several months ago, before I began working full-time, there was a post about the Malabrigo Junkies Holiday Stockpile, where there will be as many gifts knit for the holidays as possible during October.  One of the “events” is the one-skein design.  I’ve been an accidental budding designer for a while, and I am a Malabrigo Junkie, and I already had this hat design request, and it was going to be knit with Malabrigo, so it seemed like a no-brainer to get do it for the contest.  What’s the prize?  Zinnia Dahlia could be featured on Malabrigo’s website.  How cool would that be?

Wish me luck, and more Happy Knitting!