Welcome to Nomadic Knits’ annual Lonely Hearts Club KAL!

Ex’s & O’s was the featured pattern for Nomadic Knits’

LonelyHeartsClubKAL in February 2023 and is also included in the 2024

Lonely Hearts Club KAL.

$1 will be donated to the Alzheimer’s Association for every Lonely Hearts Club pattern purchase, and $5 will be donated for every Lonely Hearts Club Kit purchase.

You can find all of the details for the 2024 Lonely Hearts Club KAL, as well as links to the hat patterns and kits here: https://lnkj.in/t/lhcblog

The 2024 Lonely Hearts Club KAL will be rolling around before you know it. We’ll be knitting together in our Facebook group, Nomadic Knits : Knit the World, as well as our Ravelry Group.

2023’s pattern, Ex’s & O’s, is a cozy hat designed to be knit in a wide range of sizes and is the PERFECT first step into stranded colorwork.

There are only FIVE rows that require you to knit with two colors at the same time, and you never have to carry your yarn for more than three stitches. Slipped stitches create the majority of the colorwork.

Ex’s & O’s can be knit with a single strand of DK or with fingering weight yarn held double. You can also mix and match: use a single strand of DK as your MC and fingering held double as your CC, or vice versa.

If you’re feeling spicy, you could marl your colors by holding two different colors of fingering together. Just be sure that your contrast color will achieve your desired level of contrast for the colorwork section.

Choose from a flat or folded brim.

Size: 1 (2, 3, 4, 5, 6); to fit Baby (Toddler, Child, Teen/Small Adult, Adult, Large Adult).

Finished circumference: 11 (13, 15.25, 17.5, 19.5, 21.75)”/ 27.5 (33, 38, 43.5, 49, 54.5)cm, blocked and unstretched.

Finished height: 6 (7.5, 8.25, 9.75, 10.5, 11)”/ 15 (18.5, 21, 25, 27.5, 28.5)cm, adjustable at brim.

To be worn with 0 - 4”/ 0 - 10cm of negative ease.

Needles: US 6/ 4mm or size to obtain gauge, in 16”/ 40cm circular and DPNs; and US 4/ 3.5mm or 0.5mm smaller than gauge, in 16”/ 40cm circular.

Note: You will need DPNs or a shorter cabled circular needle for working the two smallest sizes, as a 16” circular needle will be too long.

Gauge: 22 sts and 28 rnds = 4”/ 10cm over Stockinette stitch.

Yarn: DK weight:
MC: 45 (70, 90, 125, 155, 185) yards/ 41 (64, 82, 114, 142, 169) meters; and
CC: 25 (30, 35, 40, 45, 50) yards/ 23 (28, 32, 37, 41, 46) meters.
For the folded brim, increase MC yardage as follows: _ ( _, 35, 39, 43, 48) yards/ _ ( _, 32, 36, 39, 44) meters.

******* If using fingering held double, please factor that into your yarn requirements. If the yarn requirement is listed as 100 yards, you will need 100 yards of dk or 200 yards of fingering.

Notions: tapestry needle, stitch markers.

Samples knit in: Lazy Bee Yarn Clover DK (80% superwash Merino, 20% nylon; 250 yards/ 115 grams) in Valkyrie and Snowdrift, miscellaneous fingering from deep-stash in bright Magenta.

You can get your hands on this gorgeous yarn in our online store!