Discover the Block Island Knitwear Collective through this book featuring 11 new, original designs. Each designer in this group of talented students from Deborah Newton’s Knitwear Design Workshop has created a unique hat inspired by Block Island. The collection consists mostly of knitted hats (including a beret!) but also features a brimmed cotton summer sun hat worked in crochet. Using yarns ranging from fingering to bulky weights, these hats showcase a wide variety of techniques, including colorwork and mosaic knitting.

The Slip Ahead Hat is suitable for beginners, but will also be sufficiently engaging for more experienced knitters. The slipped-stitch design easy to learn and memorize, and the three sections (ribbing, slipped-stitch section, crown decreases) break up the knitting and keep the project interesting. This hat uses less than one skein of worsted w...