The inside of a colorwork hat in violet and neon orange with a diamond pattern showing very clean floats. The rim is violet and the crown is orange.

Knitting: Two color stranded colorwork hat

Byepilonious

Completed my first hat using two handed stranded colorwork. I made it too tall and faffed up the crown reductions… But the colorwork is GORGEOUS. No bad pulling and look at those floats!

A colorwork hat in violet and neon orange with a diamond patterns. The rim is violet and the crown is orange.

I attended a #knitting workshop the weekend of Jan 20th and one of the classes was to do #stranded colorwork (also called #FairIsle) using two hands to maintain sanity and clean floats.

The inside of a colorwork hat in violet and neon orange with a diamond pattern showing very clean floats. The rim is violet and the crown is orange.

The ravelry link for the shawl is here: Ravelry: epilonious’ Two Handed Colorwork Learning Project It is my First colorwork hat.

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