A while back a friend mentioned she wanted a classy, black, earflap hat to wear with her “good” coat. She showed my the ecru 1940s art deco style silk scarf that she wears with this coat and I wanted to match the design woven into the scarf with the hat. I wanted something that would be warm and with a nice firm brim and earflaps.

Result - twined knitting - with raised stitches.

I fell in love with twined knitting about a year ago, and my family chipped in and bought me Twined Knitting, A Swedish Folkcraft Technique by Birgitta Dandanell & Ulla Danielsson. (an out of print 96$ purchase!!).

So I read the book and figured out how to make raised stitch designs and the black hat pictured here was the result. I don’t remember what yarn I used for that hat.

I am writing the pattern using the easier raised stitch design for publication. After knitting several hats I’ve decided a nice spungy, springy yarn, with lots of body works best when knit on a smaller size needle than recommended on the label.

Pattern coming soon!