Our Patterns

We hope you enjoy our pattern. Please contact us if you have any improvements that you would like to suggest and of course if you spot an error! We try and keep them as simple as possible, there are some tips and tricks at the end.

This is our first pattern from Jamo Design (a small hobby business with two guys who love knitting and crocheting in Australia).

The Design

This is what we class as a classic Jamo Fair Isle, comprising of a roll up ribbed brim, then a main body with the very cute penguin design repeated throughout, then a decrease.

Techniques

This pattern involves knit and purl and simple decreases. The main experience required is colour work (Fair Isle) and carrying floats, on some lines you will be required to carry floats for four different coloured yarns (normally Fair Isle is kept to two). The issue you may find is with the stretchiness of the finished material. See some tips and tricks at the end that might help you.

Yarn
This pattern is written based on a 8ply pure wool Australian yarn with an ‘on packet gauge’ of 22 stiches x 28 rows (10cm x 10 cm with 4mm needles). Each ball is 50g
In this pattern I used 1.5 balls of blue, 3/4 ball of black and around a 1/4 ball of white and orange. Advisable to use all yarns of a same gauge and content.

Materials
To get the size of this beanie I used 3.75mm 60cm Circular needles (it is a cast on of 140 stitches).
You will then need the normal army of accessories, stitch marker, scissors, tapestry needle and any other handy implement you use in your knitting!!