My latest experiments in knitting centred around colourwork. I have done some couourwork in the past, but never on a large scale (i.e. where most of the project is about colourwork).

The first piece is this hat.

The pattern, End of May, is meant for thicker yarn than what I used so I modified it by adding an extra pattern strip vertically and half the pattern strip horizontally. The hat ended up being just a tad bit too long so I left it on the side to think about how to fix it up. I have some ideas now (I will extend the grey underside so I can flip it up without showing the wrong side of the colourwork), let’s see how it will turn out.

The second project is these mitts.

The pattern is Natural Heather Striped Mittens from a book I got at the library. The interesting thing about the pattern is that the yarn is twisted rather than just carried in the back. it makes it look really pretty inside and the mitts promise to be warm, but, boy is it ever finicky to do.

My next project is NOT going to be colour work. I am really enjoying working on these projects, but they do take forever (or at least twice as long as the same project in single colour would). With any luck I might be able to use these next winter.

P.S. I can’t believe I do not have a “knitting” tag yet.