OrangeBrownie

I made this hat for a friend of mine. It was the very first hat I have ever made. Although since I had never made one before I had some problems making it the correct size in the first try. So I ended up making two hats where the second one turned out to be properly sized for my friend. After making some modifications I donated the first hat to my boyfriend and he is now wearing it constantly. Apparently he likes the pattern.

Anyway the hat design is my own. *The idea was to make a hat that can be carried both ways. The pattern consists of right loops (orange) and reverse loops (brown) where those two are bound to the colours. On the back side of the hat the extra yarn which travels when using other yarn has to be made to travel the same way in every turn of colours so that the pattern forms the same on the reverse side of the hat. I choose the colours with my friends backpack colours in mind. The yarn is Slovenian Nika which is 20% wool and 80% acryl. I run out of the darker coloured yarn at the end of my second hat and none of the knitting shops in Maribor had the same yarn in stock. I had started to crochet a hat with the brown yarn earlier which I then had to take apart to have the rest of the brown colour to finish the OrangeBrownie hat. So at the end I had *four hats.



Picture Jernej Burkeljca