These hats have been so much fun to knit, they practically knit themselves! The Flicker & Flame hat pattern is designed by Andrea Mowry of Drea Renee Knits. The pattern includes instructions to knit either a sportweight or a worsted weight version of the hat. The hat itself features stranded colourwork in a pattern that is easy to follow and remember. It’s done before you know it!
For these hats, I chose analogous colourways — a palette of blues to purples and a palette of warm brown, reds, oranges, and pinks. The purple/blue hat is more high contrast and so the stranded colourwork pattern shows more clearly. The brown/pink hat is much more low contrast and the effect is definitely more subtle, but no less pretty.
This is the current version of the hat that I’m knitting… a bit of a more high contrast palette with teal blue contrasting against pink/orange. It’s more like a complementary colourway with a twist. I’m looking forward to seeing how this comes together!
Felicia’s Flicker & Flame Hats
Equipment
- Knitting Needles (I originally used 16" US 5 / 3.75 mm needles for the entirety of the first two hats. On the third, I switched up to US 7 / 4.5 mm for the stranded colourwork.)
Materials
- 1 skein SweetGeorgia Yarns BFL+Silk DK (approximately 1 skein for each hat. I chose Deep Cove, Bright Penny, and Trinket)
- 1 braid SweetGeorgia Yarns BFL+Silk spinning fibre (Celestial, Gemstone)
Instructions
- Find the pattern here: https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/flicker–flame
- Check your gauge and decide which size to knit. I knit the sportweight version of size 4 (Adult Small).
Video
Link to Pattern
Link to patternAs always, if you are interested in suggestions for colour combinations or choosing your own colour palettes, we created a bunch of resources to help:
- Colour Play — our primer course on colour theory and combining colours to create colour palettes
- Colour Play Deck — literally a deck of cards that you can use to design and create colour palettes. Our Colour Cards feature our SweetGeorgia Tough Love Sock yarn dyed in every one of our colourways.
- Colour Mastery — next level colour theory and learning to use black, neutrals, and more
- Knitting with Hand-Dyed Colour — exploring what we can do with hand-dyed yarns for knitting
- Spinning Courses — we have a large library of spinning courses if you’re interested in spinning and knitting with your own handspun yarn
