Eye of the Storm hat

Eye of the Storm is a fun project that has been a long time maturing. I started thinking about this cable a long time ago, and worked on them on and off for a while.

Eye of the Storm hat

I bought 2 "one of the kind" skeins of Madelinetosh Tosh Vintage in color "French Grey" a while back (like 2 years or so... yeah, I buy too much yarn!) and with the idea of my new collection "Frugal Knitting" I decided to put my big girl pants on a finally worked those cables into a very nice hat, if I may say so myself! And who better to model it than my beautiful sister?

The brim of the hat is worked in garter st, which I love and I believe makes a nice change from ribbing. The rest of the hat is worked in a combination of cables and reverse stockinette st. The cable is quite easy, if you know how to work them. The hat is also moderately slouchy, as it seems a popular shape these days. It can easily be made into a fitter beanie by starting the decreases sooner!

Ok, more pictures? Let's do it!

Pattern is now available as an individual download as well as a part of the "Frugal Knitting" collection.

Tourbillon hat

Tourbillon is a simple single cabled hat in a versatile worsted weight yarn. It can be whipped in a short period of time and uses only a little yarn. This is the perfect weekend project!

For this hat, I used the very last remnants of the yarn I used for the prototype of my Dichotomy shawl. I had only a partial skein left, but I kept it because I can never get myself to trow away good yarn and also because I really liked it, particularly the color.

The hat is pretty easy, if you know how to work in the round and how to work cables. I really like how the cable is large and bold and stand out on the stockinette stitch background. Pattern is fully written and cable is both charted and written.

You can now buy the Tourbillon pattern as part of the Frugal Knitting collection:

Or as an individual pattern:

Sparkling hat

Sparkling hat is a fun and easy project, perfect for using a single skein of DK weight yarn. I remember grabbing this skein, a "One of a kind" on sale thinking about what I could do with a single skein, and never getting to use it. With this new collection, I got to create a very fun little hat, worked easily in a day or two, with an intuitive stitch pattern and a little slouch. It is also perfectly unisex, at least in my opinion!

The hat is worked from the brim up in an allover diamond pattern made of purl and knit stitches. It can be made with more or less slouch easily by adding or subtracting pattern repeats.

You can now buy the Sparkling pattern as part of the Frugal Knitting collection:

Or as an individual pattern:

Piccolo hat

Piccolo is a fun and cute stranded hat worked in the softest (I mean it, this yarn is heavenly!) baby alpaca yarn in a sport weight. This is my very first colorwork design, inspired from an old thrift store sweater featuring nearly unreadable small scale color pattern. I personally love to work stranded colorwork in sport weight yarns, because it works up faster and give impressive results with relatively little effort.

As my collection is called Frugal Knitting, I feel the obligation to explain to you how I obtained these yarns! The yarn from this hat is from the remnants of a set of hat and mittens I designed for Knitpicks Independent Designer Program (IDP for short), and remnants of a failed attempt at another design (yep, this happens more than I would like, and does contribute to my leftovers).

I had 4 balls left of the Prairie Heather and 2 balls left of the Meringue Heather. This hat uses 1 ball of each color, but I do believe I did a great work out of my leftovers! I still have 3 balls of the Prairie Heather color and 1 of the Meringue Heather, but I love the yarn so much it should not be a problem to find a way to use them!


Worked in

Knitpicks Andean Treasure in color "Prairie Heahter"

Knitpicks Andean Treasure in color "Meringue Heather"

You can now buy the Piccolo pattern as part of the Frugal Knitting collection:

Or as an individual pattern:

Winter Berries hat

Winter Berries hat started with my leftovers from the Winter Berries scarf, and my wanting for another hat for this Winter season. I wanted a simple hat to coordinate with my scarf, something pretty, easy and fast to knit ( a good combination, I think!). Oh and yes, with me again modeling: gosh I hate that!

Winter Berries hat - Beanie version

My leftovers were quite small in quantity, so I whipped up a beanie sized hat, but I felt the same hat would look nice in a moderate tam. At the same time, I had enough yarn in my stash to work a second sample of the Winter Berries scarf (the first one was sadly lost) and a tam, in lovely Madelinetosh Tosh Vintage in color "Afternoon".

Winter Berries hat - tam version

Now this tam is moderate both in size and in slouch, but I left instructions in the pattern to adapt the size to the knitter's liking.

I love the pinwheel at the crown, making a nice little touch of interest that I feel in complementing the pattern well.

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The pattern is now available in my Ravelry store as well as on my website.

Rosalie Tam

Rosalie tam started out of a very selfish need, and as usual a surplus of stash yarn! Here you can see me, for one of the only times in my life where I chose to model myself (I dearly hate the very thought of it!).

For this hat, I wanted a vintage feel, something I could use to add a 'je ne sais quoi' to my Fall and Winter outfits.

In no time, I sorted trough my favorite old stitchionary and found a lovely lace, intended to be used in layettes. I struggled a bit with in until I had a stroke of genius (well, maybe not genius, but I solved my problem anyway!), removed some rows, changed some decreases and ended up with a lovely 'in the round only' lace pattern.

The result is a very, very, easy lace tam, with a pretty rolled brim and a unique lace pattern. It is made out of a little bit of sport weight wool, here Knitpicks Andean Treasure in the lovely colorway 'Meringue Heather'.

Knitpicks Andean Treasure
color "Meringue Heather"

Here you can see more pictures with one of the lovely models from Knitpicks.

If you like the Rosalie Tam, go check out the Rosalie mittens. There is an automatic 50% discount if you buy both patterns together!

Gentleman hat

This hat is the result of my search for a fast and easy hat for my little boy for Fall. I wanted it to be simple and yet have an interesting twist to it.

I had the idea of turning this beautiful stitch pattern from my Barbara Walker treasury into a hat for quite a while and when I finally went stash diving, I found I had some Valley Yarns Valley Superwash DK in this nice shade of blue:

I decided to go on with this idea, and whipped this nice little hat for my son.

I love the all around ribbing, making it an almost brainless knit that is only broken by the twisted stitches to keep it interesting. This is exactly the kind of hat both my son and husband will wear, and I can easily imagine making one for myself as well, it is totally unisex!

 I made the pattern in 3 sizes, child (women, men) or 16 (19, 22.5) inches circumference. Feel free to experiment with yarn weight, make it slouchy by adding repeats or simple make it as the pattern suggest!

Pattern is available for free on Ravelry and Craftsy.


Please note this pattern is available for free, but the copyright remains the same and this pattern cannot be used to create items for resale or used in any other commercial purpose without my written consent. Thanks for respecting my copyright!