This project was the design sample for my recently released reversible hat pattern.

In the Spring of 2017, I sent a design proposal for a reversible hat (in three sizes) to The Fibre Co. I knit my swatch with their bulky weight yarn, Tundra (60% Camelid Alpaca, 30% Wool Merino, 10% Silk). TFC liked my idea and sent two skeins of lush, lofty, super-soft Tundra in the Taiga colorway across the Atlantic…

I was selected as a designer for The Fibre Co’s Fall 2017 Yarn Support Programme!

This design was originally sparked by the photo of the “Sunburst Check” stitch pattern on page 202 of A 2ND TREASURY OF KNITTING PATTERNS by Barbara G Walker. I was fascinated by the depth of texture in the photo.

When I swatched this stitch pattern, I was quite surprised to find that the reverse side of the fabric was a stitch pattern in itself – a very fluid rib-cable. It did not look like the “wrong side” of a piece of knitting. I worked out a double brim that compliments both sides of the hat. I also created a decreasing crown that flows from the stitch pattern on both sides of the hat.

The pattern has both charted and written directions and was just released on November 28. (Special introductory discount of 25% through December 4.)