A new hat pattern: Noisy

Here is a simple little beanie I wrote a simple little pattern for. This is the first knitting pattern I’m putting out, so simple is good!

I’ve made lots of plain black ribbed beanies over the years, they’re nice and mindless to knit, so last winter when I wanted a quick instant gratification project, I figured I’d make one for myself but make a bit more interesting by adding a contrast yarn. I had a couple of skeins of off-white DK weight yarn left from a sweater so this seemed like a perfect use for it! Nothing like some black and white marling amirite.

When I remembered this would be a good little design to dip my toes in the pattern writing waters with, I also realised how easy it would be to add any colour to black to make it different, or knit with any two colours for all sorts of looks – bright, primary, natural, neutral, dark… I sometimes sketch out my designs and colour them in to test before committing to a yarn, but that can be tricky when the different colours are in the yarn itself. So I made a little tool to test out different colours before swatching, on a webpage.

Head over to the pattern page, where you can test the custom colour picker and find the pattern for free. It comes in 4 sizes, child through to adult large, and is worked in two strands of DK yarn held together.