While browsing the patterns for fairisle hats on
Ravelry.com I came across this set of hats, knitted in stranded knitting with multicolour Kauni effect yarn. The pattern is designed by
Ruth Sorensen and this pattern is from the Knit a Hat ebooklet. I would definitely recommend this pattern.
I do have a couple of balls of Kauni yarn in my stash but there wasn't enough contrast between the colours for them to work well together so I chose to use one of my Noro Silk Garden sock yarns in shades of plum, mauve and olive green for the Norwegian stars contrasted with a dark plum/purple Trekking sock yarn for the dark main colour.
The pattern asked for 3mm and 3.25mm needles but I used 3.75mm needles instead as I have a tendency of knitting quite tightly when doing stranded colourwork in the round.
Next time I think I would knit a narrower ribbed edging probably using the tubular cast on method for a neat edge. I loved knitting this pattern and found the shaping for the crown to be rather cleverly worked within the stars. But I find when I am wearing the hat that the crown goes to a slightly too "pixie" pointy finish for me. I prefer my hats to be slightly more rounded at the crown. I have only worn the hat a couple of times so far. But DH thinks it looks nice on me.
I have some of this lovely yarn combination left over and I am trying to decide whether to design a cowl or fingerless mittens that would look lovely with the hat. I think I will probaby opt for the mittens.
