Knit Hats review in Vogue Knitting!

The latest issue of Vogue Knitting is the 40th anniversary edition and it features a great review of my Knit Hats book!

“… nonconformance is more Woolly Wormhead’s game. Rather than plop a new cable on a tried-and-true shape, Woolly is more interested in the sculptural and engineering properties of Hats.”

My nonconformity is being celebrated, finally!

It really is a great review and it did me so much good to learn about it - thanks Yvonne for letting me know. The reviewer gets my work, my approach, and it’s so refreshing because more often than not magazines shy away from my designs because they’re “too out there”. In the past I’ve been asked by publishers to make my designs simpler, or I’ve been asked to stick to “regular” Hats, and that always makes me sad as knitters deserve to have access to creative projects that stretch their skills.

And to have Vogue Knitting recognise and say all that? I’m a very happy soul.

Interconnection - errata

This post applies both to the single version of the Interconnection pattern and the version in both Knit Hats and Mützen Stricken, although for slightly different reasons.

The original instructions for setting up the stitches to create the button tab, and how to manage both the Provisional Cast-on and Graft around it, weren’t as clear as they could have been. I’m unsure how exactly the instructions were translated but I understand that the German version was difficult to follow.

In my want to improve on this when the pattern was dropped into the new layout, I failed to check the file revisions as far back as I should have, and ended up adding to the confusion rather than helping.

I’ve spent this morning going over this section of the pattern again and between us we’ve arrived at an improved, clearer and cleaner version!

After completing all the panels as instructed, remembering to omit the final row on the final panel, the final row will be a preparation row as follows:

Button Tab Prep Row: using larger needle and Standard Bind-off method, bind off 16 stitches. Break yarn and hold the remaining stitches for the graft.

Then pick up but do not knit 16 stitches from the back of the bind-off. Rejoin the working yarn to the wrong side of the work and the work button tab as directed.

Once the button tab is complete, pick up but do not knit 16 stitches from the back of the bind off at the base of the button tab. Place these stitches on the needle next to those held for grafting, as they’ll then be grafted along with the rest.

There’ll then be no need to treat the stitches released from the provisional cast-on differently, or any need to bind off any further stitches. The stitches under the button tab will include slipped stitches, as per the rest of the Hat, but you can get away with a regular Garter Stitch Graft for these as they’ll be hidden when you sew the buttons down.

The single pattern has been updated on all platforms - you can use your original download link to get the latest version, or access it within your Etsy or Ravelry account.

Knit Hats - Errata

It’s come to my attention that there’s an error in Knit Hats and possibly in Mützen Stricken.

On page 120 in the Grafting Garter Stitch instructions, steps 1 and 2 - for the selvedge stitches - it says to slip the stitch off the needle, whereas it should say to leave the stitch on the needle.