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.

Bright Penny (MC) and Gemstones (CC)
Trinket (MC) and Celestial (CC)
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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