Patterns for Your Knitting Adventures
A super large hat in recycled shetland yarn and leftovers. The shetland is from a sweater I unravelled. The “lice” pattern I used here (with 1 or 2 rows between offset colorwork) is a great way to use up very small balls of leftovers. Lice also has the advantage of not pulling in as much as some other colorwork, making it easier to get away with not working the ribbing on smaller needles.
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A simple colorwork hat to use up leftovers- I had several piles of reds, browns, and grays in wool and acrylic blends that were all worsted weight that I wanted to use up. This hat is a great example of why you should use smaller needles to knit the ribbing…or increase a few stitches before starting the colorwork. I probably should have done both. Like most of my leftover hats, I let the amount of yarn I had of each color dictate what patterns I used and when I would switch colors.
A simple hat- I knit this using several strands of recycled shetland yarn from a sweater I unravelled. The dark grey yarn has a tiny bit of white throughout, and is quite warm (though not terribly soft). A great hat for working outdoors. I knit a deep K3, P2 ribbing with a st st body and quick decreases at the top.
Knit from the top down using several worsted weight yarns in my leftovers stash in neutral browns with some pale blue to finish it off. I added corrugated rib to the bottom to make the hat a bit more interesting to knit and to use up as much of the blue yarn as possible. Since I had a few yards of the blue and a teeny tiny bit of brown left at the end I made a small pom pom to top the hat- I love it when I use up every last bit of yarn!
Knit in Cascade Pacific 
I worked 2 x 2 ribbing, then st st until the hat was nearly long enough- then worked 6 decreases around every 3rd round to create a pointed top. Once I was down to just a few stitches I worked Icord until I had enough of a tip to tie in a small knot.
