Original Pattern: Christmas in July
Knitter Extraordinaire: Laura (Ravelry ID)
Mods: Using the colourful yoke of the sweater pattern, Laura created a hat for her daughter instead. Details are on her project page, here.
What Makes This Awesome: Ah, the colourful yoke sweater – such a great source of inspiration! Laura loves a colourful yoke, and decided to make a hat for her daughter using a yoke from the Christmas in July sweater pattern, which she’s knit before. Changing a yoke to hat isn’t completely straightforward, it does take a bit of finessing when the decreases at the crown begin, and Laura adjusted the pattern to allow for the decreasing at the crown to be worked in a way that made sense for the both the hat and the pattern. Improvising is a useful skill when knitting with colourwork, but when working with an item like a hat, you can always rip it back a tiny bit if you don’t like the way the improvised bits are working out.
I love the colours Laura chose- that rainbow effect is so darn happy! And the decreases look perfect, topped with that light blue pom pom.
Laura is a frequent modifier who loooooves colourwork- you can see some of her previous Mod Monday contributions here, here, here, here, here, and of course here.
I so admire the skill and patience to work with 16+ colors. I’d frame it:)
What a beautiful rainbow of vivid colours, truly a gorgeous hat! Some people are so skilled when it comes to combining and working colors.
Those colors are happy and beautiful!!
This works so well! I love the colors she chose—and how sweet to be able to have a matching sweater and hat??