Done and done. I did finish my Red light Special on the plane from Ft. Lauterdale to Detroit. I blocked it when I got back to Pittsburgh, a couple more days to get the photos, and there you have it. It took less than a week, and I loved knitting it.
The inside guts, because we all love to see the strands… Love that magenta lining!
Some Specs:
Pattern: Red Light Special, from the awesome Jared, over at Brooklyn Tweed.
Yarn: Rowan Cashsoft DK. In 3 colors, 516 Sage, 509 Lime, and 511 Madame. The fourth color, the bright green, was a minty color of cashsoft baby dk, but I overdyed it months ago. Not quite a whole ball of yarn was used for the main colors, and a very little bit was used of the lime.
Some Thoughts: This is a very good pattern, very easy to understand, very clearly written up. This would be a good pattern for the first time fairisle-r. If you can knit a hat, you can knit this. It also made for very good plane knitting. Not mindless, you have to pay attention to the chart, and not to complicated as to make me think or have to work anything out.
The pattern calls for sportweight yarn, but seeing as I’m trying to knit from my stash (trying to), I used the cashsoft dk, I seem to have aquired one skein each of several differant colors. I know that my colorwork is often tight, so I felt very confident about using a thicker yarn. I knit it with Addi Turbos, 4mm (US6) for the body, and 3.5mm(US4) for the lining, and got gauge after blocking.
So yes, you all need to knit this. I was also thinking, it would be a piece of cake to use this pattern, but sub differant fairisle charts into it. I think the next time I need a project just like this, I’ll do just that.
It’s beautiful!!
I love the colors, the stranding, the magenta lining! Bravo!
A very nice version! I would probably use a dk to get a sport-weight gauge in a fairisle pattern too. I like a nice firm fairisle – especially for a hat.
I love the way your hat turned out! I’ve been obsessing about it since it first showed up on Brooklyn Tweed, but i’m very new to Fair Isle so i thought this might be too difficult for me. However, if you think a novice can handle it, I’ll give it a try.
How cute is the top of that hat? CUTE! Love
the colors!
Super Cute, you’ve inspired me to finish mine. Maybe tomorrow…
Very excellent looking hat!
Looks great! Again, the colors are beautiful!
so cute! the colors match up perfectly! that is a great idea to use that hat pattern but swap out the fair isle pattern for others….i may just have to do that!
It turned out great!! I particularly love hte magenta lining. Welcome back!
Awesome! Love the lining and the stranding.
julia! it looks amazing!!!!!
Love, love love the top of your hat! Great design and love the colors you used
Great color choices on your red-light hat. Are you from Pittsburgh? This is my first visit to your blog and that caught my eye… as I too am a ‘burger. Nice to see a local gal representing!
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That is totally adorable!
Great Hat! Love the colors, especially the magenta on the inside.
I love it! What a cute hat. The guts are really nice, too.
Wow, you are so fast! I will give this hat a try sometime soon…
So so so cute! Love the colors 😉