Camden Cap - creating the peak brim

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This blog post was first published on Carol Feller’s ‘Stolen Stitches’ blog as part of the blog tour for Classic Woolly Toppers. Carol has very kindly permitted me to repost her photos and content here, and I hope it’ll prove helpful in seeing how the peak of the Camden Cap comes together.

Carol is an amazing knitwear designer living in Cork, Ireland, and she also has her own line of yarns. If you pop over you’ll also find books, online classes and kits!

It is an interesting process working through a pattern with my son. We found some Cushendale DK wool in my stash that he liked the colour of and got started. He hasn’t come across a lot of the techniques before but I’m just teaching him each one as we reach it. We’ve now done the provisional cast on, short rows, picking up wraps and undoing the provisional cast on. We’re currently working on the blocking and moving on to the joining of the hem. The patterns are all so well written that once the technique has been explained he’s well able to go from there to working through the remainder of the Hat. I’m afraid thanks to the imposition of school he hasn’t finished the Hat yet but that will be another blog post :-)

Now here, in Caelen’s own words was his experience knitting Camden:

“I discovered this Hat when investigating the website of Woolly Wormhead. I was intrigued by the peak of this Hat, as I had never encountered such a design in a piece of knitwear before. After expressing this interest to my Mum, I discovered how it worked. As the blog tour of C.W.T. was taking place, I decided to give it a go and show my results. The Hat has a very interesting design, I have just moved on from the peak to the brim, and should finish it soon. Knitting together two pieces of wool around a piece of constantly slipping plastic was a first for me, I can confidently say. This Hat is by far one of the more challenging knits I’ve done, and I’ve enjoyed and learned a lot knitting it so far. I look forward to seeing how it turns out!”

1) Pinning the peak

2) Knitting in the plastic

3) Close-up of knitting in the plastic

4) Joining in the round

I know the brim doesn’t look like a pocket when it’s knit, but bring the two sets of live stitches together following the schematic and it will. I hope these photos have helped! Many thanks to Carol and Caelen.

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