Avenue Road is a pattern included in our 2019 Red Scarf scholarship fundraiser! All proceeds from the sale of this pattern through December 31, 2019 will go directly to our scholarship in partnership with Foster Care to Success. You can learn more about Foster Care to Success here. Our Red Scarf scholarship patterns are knit in our Bare Naked Wools Festivus 5.0 yarn in the colorway Union Suit. A portion of yarn sales go directly to the scholarship.

A handsome hat, suitable for all styles and tastes, sized for teens to large adults.

Brioche knitting is very fashionable right now, and for good reason. It’s fun, and it creates interesting and distinct fabrics. There’s a challenge, though: not only are the instructions a little bit funky, but the stitches themselves can be weird to execute.

Funny story, however: there’s a method calling Fisherman’s Rib which achieves exactly the same effect. Instead of the sl1yo (a.k.a. yfsl1) move, you just work into the stitch in the row below. This hat pattern uses this ‘below’ method to create brioche ribs. And I’ve indulged another trick, too! Since the plain sections of the fabric are reverse stockinette, and most knitters prefer knitting to purling, I have you work the hat inside out, so that it’s mostly knitting.

The name of the hat? There’s an Avenue Road in Toronto, not far from where I live. The name has always amused me - two ways of saying the same thing. That’s how I feel about Brioche and Fisherman’s Rib - two ways of saying the same thing!