If you purchased the Introspection pre-order you can now use your original download link to access all 6 of the single patterns and if you’ve been waiting for one of the other styles to released as a standalone pattern, you can now get your hands on it!

All six single patterns are now available - Beanie, Beret, Bonnet, Helmet, Pixie and Slouch - and they’re in the shiny new layout with ISBNs and download links for the tutorials. The individual webpages are active and you can buy them on Etsy, Ravelry and Payhip as well as here.

If you’ve purchased the pre-order it’ll depend on which platform you purchased from as to how you get notified of an update.

I’ve sent a message via Etsy to each pre-order customer, and if your original download link doesn’t allow to access the latest files then please reply to me and I’ll set you up a unique coupon code that’ll let you purchase the pre-order on Payhip for free. Etsy limits the number of files that sellers can add to a listing so until the eBook is ready, all 6 of the single patterns have been merged into one file for convenience.

Payhip does have a notification system of sorts, but you have to opt into it when you purchase, and given the wording and lack of clarity around that understandably not everyone has checked that box. If you’ve not received an update email then use your original download link to access the 6 single patterns and the pre-order file. There is a limit to the number of times a download link can be used on Payhip, and I have lifted that a little, and hopefully releasing them in batches rather than one by one should help with that. But do remember that there’s one more update to come, for the final eBook.

Ravelry has an automatic update notice and I’ve opted to send the updates to outside PayPal email addresses as well as internal Rav mail, just in case one of the two doesn’t get through - which in my experience happens more often than it should.

The Beanie and Helmet single patterns have had a tiny update too, mostly a couple of tweaks to the language in the crown shaping section so they match the others and provide even more clarity. The other change is in the linked tutorials, which have been updated to cover a couple of clever techniques that create really smooth increases in those Hats where there’s a change in shape between the brim and body.

Besides aiming for meditative, refined knits that work in so many sizes across so many yarns, and creating Hats that will work perfectly with the most opinionated of hand-dyed yarns or most challenging of hand-spuns, I aimed towards techniques and details that not only stretch our skills but also challenge the methods we already know.

I mean, this is me - I can’t help but change things and challenge myself when designing! It’s the ADHD, I need to indulge my problem-solving self and stave of boredom, so I get engrossed in the little details. And these 6 Hats each have details that stretch what we know of the standard beanie or the standard increase methods or the standard crown shapings, except they may be a little more subtle than my usual patterns. Then again, maybe 10 crown shaping options isn’t very subtle!

One area that you’ll find some interesting details is in the folded brim options for each style. I’ve a new tutorial to share soon, about how you can increase stitches as you join the brim itself - which is something you’ll have met if you’ve worked Elfdans, North Lyme or Bedragonned or any of my patterns that have a double up brim in some way. It’s a really clever little technique that creates such a neat finish and does away with the need to increase after the fact.

But I also push the folded brim further with the Intro Bonnet and Intro Helmet - these feature brims split in some way, and that needed me to approach things from a different direction if I wanted to keep the same clean lines throughout. I talked about this more with Patreons and in due course I’ll get that written up as a free tutorial, but you’ll see how I approach it if you work either of these Introspection Hats.

We’re now working on finishing up the eBook - getting all the content into layout and then checking over everything - and it’s coming together really nicely. The eBook - and the print version, too - feature bonus chapters, including how to switch up the stitch pattern from stocking stitch and start branching into design, so there’s lots to look forward to!

I do hope you enjoy these new patterns, I look forward to seeing what you do with them :)

Introspection - all single patterns now available!

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