Hats Galore

On the Puck This group on Ravelry we have a Hat Trick month in January and it's all for fun but the goal is to knit 3 hats in the month. I do love knitting hats since they're usually fast and fun.

My usual goal is to use up my current stash but that does not always work out as planned. I'm not sure if I blogged about my personal hat trick but I did continue knitting on hats through February. Also if you watched the winter Olympics in Sochi, you may noticed the really cool knit hats that many athletes wore.

Luckily there are plenty of talented people to reverse engineer the designs and share them with fellow knitters. One of my first hats was the 2014 USA hat, of course. I only have one photo of the hat which features colorwork moose, designs of USA and 2014.



Quite large for the average person and I stopped the chart soon after the moose as the hat was getting very tall. I'm sure I can find someone who will claim this cool hat.

Then I was in a patriotic mood, so I continued with the same yarn and made a Scrappy Ski Hat. This is a super pattern for using all those odd and ends of yarn laying around. I keep saying I need to knit up my existing stash but somehow I keep buying more yarn. Its a vicious cycle.





Oh, I'm not finished! I was telling you I was on some sort of hat knitting frenzy...



This cool pattern, Slovakian Folklore Hat takes its inspiration from the winter Olympics where the Slovakia had these super fab hats. A talented person took her time to chart it out and I was lucky enough to find it/knit it. This hat is really tall and slouchy which is how it's supposed to be but I did have to leave out the last chart before it was too long. Yes, I bought more yarn but these colors are great and wintery. And it looks complete with a pom pom. :)



I'm definitely wearing this hat when I take off to the great white north next month. :)





One more hat and I think that's it for now. I knit another Sockhead hat. This hat is great because it uses sock yarn which is thinner/lighter which is more suitable for SoCal weather. We are supposed to get 2 rainstorms and I'm currently wearing it as I type.

It's a great mindless project because I don't have to think about it. Just lots of ribbing and then miles of knitting. I might use up some leftover sock yarn and make a scrappy one.

Phew! That's the hats although I didn't show the 3 I knit for January. I don't want to overload everyone more than I have. Now to prepare for rain!