Aspen leaf hat

Yarn 1: Evilla 8/3, deep purple, Dye lot 38 Purchased at astridsdutchobsessions (out of stock) Yarn: 2, handspun Ouessant from my own sheep called Madelief, natural undyed white

Notes Knit on my Brother 260 as a test for my version of the shaded aspen leaf sweater by Elizabeth Zimmermann. Funny, it looks a bit like another Elizabeth Zimmermann design: the pillbox, which I only realized afterwards. Felted the hat slightly afterwards in the wasdryer. This opens the rather course Eville wool nicely. Alas, it shrunk the hat so that it didn't fit me anymore. Well, it does fit 8 year old Sophie nicely and wears it all the time. I made a punchcard of the entire Aspen leaf pattern for the tunic and used only the first pattern repeat for this hat. Gauge 18 st x 33 rows = 10 x 10 cm on Tension 2.2 Cast on 84 st. with waste yarn on tension 2 and knit a few rows. Change to main colour and knit 13 rows. Move every other stitch to the adjacent needle and knit one row.Change tension to 2.2.Knit 13 rows. Unravel waste yarn and pick up cast on stitches for picot edge.Knit one row to bind picot edge. Carriage on left side: insert punchcard, choose KC for selecting needles and knit one row. Carriage on right side:insert contrast colour, and change tension to 3. (You might ad a small 2 row border motive here, I forgot) Knit 22 rows (complete Aspen leave motive) Knit 2 rows main colour. Knit 2 rows of small border motive. Change to tension 2. Knit 2 rows main colour. Pick up all stitches with a circular needle and handknit decreases knitting in the round: Decr. every 13th and 14th sts. knit 1 row. Decr. every 12ht and 13th sts* Knit 1 row Decr. every 11th and 12th sts. a.s.o. Matress stitch open edge. Soak the hat and dry it in the washdryer. Watch out for shrinkage and take the hat out while still moist. Shape the hat and let it dry.

Sarah Lund hat

From leftovers of the Sarah Lund cardigan I made a coördinated hat. It fits a head size L.

You will need:
One skein of Istex Lett Lopi Black heather no.005 and some yards of leftovers for the motive.Circular needle 3,5 mm

Co 106 st in MC on a 3,5 mm circular needle, Join in the round.
Knit 2x2 rib for 8 rows with 3,5 mm ndl.
Knit 2 rows in MC using 4 mm circ. ndl.
Knit pattern for 17 rows, using leftovers of grey and light grey as CC.
Knit 4 rows in MC
next row: knit 10 st., knit 2tog repeat.
Knit one row.
Next row: knit 9 st., knit 2tog repeat.
Knit one row.
Next row: knit 8 st., knit 2tog repeat.
Knit one row.
Continue decreasing this way until a few st. remain. Break thread and pull end through remaining stitches.

Slightly felt hat in drying machine for a fuzzy appearance.

You can easily modify this simple pattern for the Brother 260 bulky knitting machine.
It goes like this:

Co 106 st in waste yarn and knit a few rows.
Knit one row with ravelyarn.
Change to MC and knit 2 rows in MC.
Set knitting machine for pattern knitting.
Knit pattern for 17 rows, using leftovers of grey and light grey as CC.
Knit 4 rows in MC
Remove stitches from needles using a circular needle 3,5 mm
Work decrease rounds in handknitting.

next row: knit 10 st., knit 2tog repeat.
Knit one row.
Next row: knit 9 st., knit 2tog repeat.
Knit one row.
Next row: knit 8 st., knit 2tog repeat.
Knit one row.
Continue decreasing this way until a few st. remain. Break thread and pull end through remaining stitches.
Sew backseam.

Mother and daughter hats

These hats were made for my stepdaughter and grandchild.

I like the colour changes in this sockyarn very much and I think they worked out very nice in these hats and the scarf. I knit them on my Brother 862 on Tension 5.

Yarn: Scheepjeswol Invicta Colour, 1 skein = 460.0 yards (420.6m), Colorway 958
and Scheepjeswol Invicta Colour, 1 skein = 460.0 yards (420.6m), Colorway 959
Both purchased at Quiltservice Frederiksoord www.quiltservice.nl

Fish pattern for punchcard comes from “Colourful machine knitting patterns, vol.1”.

Adult hat has 6 pattern repeats, so:
CO 144 st on waste yarn, knit 2 rows and change to MC. Picot edging: Knit 10 rows. Next row: move every other st,. to the adjacent ndl. putting empty ndls. out of working position and knit over it once. Next row: put non-working ndls back in working position and knit 10 rows. Next row: pick up st. from CO row and knit them together with st. on the ndls. Install punchcard and CC and work fish motive card once. Remove CC and knit a few plain rows. Remove sts. to circular ndl, knit a few rows plain stockinette and start decreases:
row 1: * knit 5 st, 2 tog.* row 2: purl,
row 3: * knit 4 st., knit 2 tog., row 4 purl,
row 4:knit 2 tog., row 5: purl,
row 6:knit 2 tog.*
Break off yarn, draw through sts. to close the gap. Close back hem.

The child’s hat has a rolled hem: just knit about 15 rows in MC and let them roll. Childs hat has 5 pattern repeats: CO 120 st.for a toddler size.

Childs scarf has 3 pattern repeats, so CO 72 st and knit a few card repeats. Take off machine and handknit a few decrease rows. I have sewn the long edge on the sewing machine and closed the remaining sts from the short edges with kitchener stitch.