Long Lake Yarns

This is Mary Dominski’s Celtic Braid hat, knitted in Blackberry Ridge bulky weight 25% mohair, 75% Wool. I knitted this quite some time ago, but the pattern and the kit are still available on the Blackberry Ridge site.  The pattern is a great introduction to simple Fair Isle two-color knitting.  The double strand braid is [...]

Knitting hats is pretty much instant gratification.  If you make a mitten, you have to make another.  If you make a sock, same thing.  A bored knitter, or for that matter an adventurous one,  can create mismatched pairs.  Still, such things must happen in twos.  But not hats. It also helps, paraphrasing Elizabeth Zimmermann, that [...]