#ribbedcap

Four stitches to go 😬

Nope. I started the crown of the first version but thought "nope" and frogged back to the first stripe. Reknit in narrower, neater stripes, I'm much happier with the result. It's my latest ribbed cap for Scrap Along 2026, knit from four colorways of leftover fingering weight yarn.

It's an inside day today, but an opportunity to capture this combination of leftover yarn, helical knitting, and colorway pooling in a swirling ribbed cap for Scrap Along 2026.

I look forward to seeing other yarn crafter's work soon!

Beach break. I finished this ribbed cap of leftover yarn a day before the "official" start of Scrap Along 2026. This one is sentimental…

I used the very last yards of a ball of soft green Zitron Trekking XXL 285, a gift from my mother when she taught me her method of knitting socks. Sixteen years ago.

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.

Ribbed Cap

I sometimes knit things personally that I'd never put into a published pattern. I liked the K3p2 right side of this hat's brim much more than the k2p3 wrong side. When the brim is folded, however, the wrong side is what normally shows.

I turned the brim inside out to show the former right side when folded and continued in the opposite direction. 😋

A week later

I have 3.5 inches of ribbing of the "plain" ribbed cap so far. The colors can be a little dark, but they remind me of eggplant - their skin, flesh, and stems.

The second ribbed cap is about 6 inches long now. I like the k3p2 right side of helical knitting much more than the k2p3 wrong side that would show when folded, so I turned it inside out and kept on going. The rest of the cap will be solid blue.

I weighed, I measured, I ran out of yarn. I ripped back to knit a band that would be hidden and leave ample yarn for the rest of the cap. I like the dark, steely blue band, though, so I'll knit enough to show beyond the brim. Onward.