Flicker & Flame Hats

These hats have been so much fun to knit, they practically knit themselves! The Flicker & Flame hat pattern is designed by Andrea Mowry of Drea Renee Knits. The pattern includes instructions to knit either a sportweight or a worsted weight version of the hat. The hat itself features stranded colourwork in a pattern that is easy to follow and remember. It’s done before you know it!

Flicker & Flame Hat knit in SweetGeorgia BFL+Silk DK

For these hats, I chose analogous colourways — a palette of blues to purples and a palette of warm brown, reds, oranges, and pinks. The purple/blue hat is more high contrast and so the stranded colourwork pattern shows more clearly. The brown/pink hat is much more low contrast and the effect is definitely more subtle, but no less pretty.

SweetGeorgia BFL+Silk DK in Deep Cove
SweetGeorgia BFL+Silk DK in Deep Cove with BFL+Silk handspun in Gemstones

This is the current version of the hat that I’m knitting… a bit of a more high contrast palette with teal blue contrasting against pink/orange. It’s more like a complementary colourway with a twist. I’m looking forward to seeing how this comes together!

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Felicia’s Flicker & Flame Hats

A lovely stranded colourwork knitting hat project designed by Andrea Mowry. I've knit a few versions using different colours and yarns, and here's all the details…
Keyword Stranded Colourwork, Handspun, Hat
Craft Knitting, Spinning
Maker Felicia Lo
Designer Andrea Mowry
Skill Level Intermediate
Produces 0
Author Felicia Lo

Equipment

  • Knitting Needles (I originally used 16" US 5 / 3.75 mm needles for the entirety of the first two hats. On the third, I switched up to US 7 / 4.5 mm for the stranded colourwork.)

Materials

Instructions

  • Find the pattern here: https://ift.tt/ZEFmgzU
  • Check your gauge and decide which size to knit. I knit the sportweight version of size 4 (Adult Small).

Video

As always, if you are interested in suggestions for colour combinations or choosing your own colour palettes, we created a bunch of resources to help:

  • Colour Play — our primer course on colour theory and combining colours to create colour palettes
  • Colour Play Deck — literally a deck of cards that you can use to design and create colour palettes. Our Colour Cards feature our SweetGeorgia Tough Love Sock yarn dyed in every one of our colourways.
  • Colour Mastery — next level colour theory and learning to use black, neutrals, and more
  • Knitting with Hand-Dyed Colour — exploring what we can do with hand-dyed yarns for knitting
  • Spinning Courses — we have a large library of spinning courses if you’re interested in spinning and knitting with your own handspun yarn

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