I love a good stitch dictionary. I swear by my Barbara Walker book (A Treasury of Knitting) for inspiration. Sadly, my book is still in the US as it isn’t an essential to living abroad. Lucky for me I stumbled upon this blog called String Geekery during a 3:00 AM feeding. It is awesome! The author posts lovely lace and mosaic charts for free!

Itching to start something new I decided to work up Naomi Parkhust’s water-inspired mosaic chart into a infant hat. Hats are a great canvas for work like this. You can get in just enough practice without having to commit to a huge project. Naomi only provided a chart so it was up to me to form a pattern around it. All was good when I started the hat, but as I got to the crown decreases I need to use my thinking cap. How could I preserve the colorwork pattern while decreasing?

I figured it out on the fly (aka just went for it) rather than charting it. To the average eye it looks fine, which was a-ok with me. After doing this I tried to write what I did down. However, I had trouble charting the decreases so that someone else would understand it. So I gave up. A bit fixed mindset I know, but I need some more education around making colorwork charts that include decreases.

Overall, I am happy with how the hat turned out. It was a good use of stash yarn and a great way for me to keep practicing my colorwork skills. I plan on trying more of Naomi’s mosaic charts in the near future. I am thinking I would like to use a green and grey color contrast.

Until Next Time,