High school graduation gift for nephew Jack. A doubled hat for warmth in the coldest climate he will have ever experienced. He’ll be going to Syracuse University - upstate New York where the college has the highest average snowfall of any college in the US. I think it must be really cold there!
Tried to knit-in some meaning for him: the gray/black side represents his Samoan heritage and is my sorry attempt to replicate the intricate shoulder tattoos done in Samoa. (See last photo which is one I found on the Internet that served as inspiration for my charted design).
The orange/gray side represents his mother’s (my sister) maternal Irish ancestry. I used a border pattern called Celtic Eye Dance; it is typical of border designs used by early Irish Catholic monks at work in their scriptoria, hand-decorating pages of Bibles and prayer books.
Must give another shout out to Mary Scott Huff for her class on stranded color work - you made a big difference in my confidence for this kind of knitting and I want to thank you One More Time!!