#furrowcap

Furrow Cap

Sitting on my porch, knitting the pattern sample of my Furrow Cap. I knit at least one project from my instructions before publishing to check that they’re correct and usable. This time that means inches and inches of ribbing in fingering weight yarn on DPNs. 🤪

I’ve stress knit a dozen ribbed caps this year, settling into shaping and decreases that work for me. Knitters have asked for my tweaks, but they amount to an entire pattern.

So, my idea is this. Publish the hat as my Furrow Cap for some price with notes about using leftover yarn, but make it free with the purchase of any of my other patterns.

Here is the sample cap I’m knitting for design specifications, instructions, etc. Back to work I go.

Most of the fourteen ribbed caps in this pile reflect changes I made for the fit and aesthetic I wanted. The rest are steps along the way, each one nice enough but not quite what I was aiming for.

My designs are usually things I can't find. It might be a matter of size, yarn weight, or practicality. Sometimes I wander into surprising projects like jockstraps without elastic, a counterweight basket, and a knitted balloon dog.

Paused the pattern process to post pretty pictures. This is the pattern sample of my Furrow Hat. To think that after knitting a ribbed cap for the first time, I said “Never again.” 😆

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