Mossy Beret

Well, okay, so I'm a bit behind the times with this post, seeing as I finished this project a fortnight before xmas. It's such a useful hat, especially now that it's friggin' freezing here. The Snowflake Tam that I made back in October just doesn't cut it as winter noggin protection.

Pattern: Moss Stitch Beret
Designer: Kent Turman
Source: Kent's Craft
Needles: 3.25mm and 4.5mm bamboo dpns
Yarn Details:

• Pirkanmaan kotityö Ohut Pirkkalanka
• 100% wool
• 100 grams = 400 metres
• 70 grams used
• yarn held double
  

The pattern was very simple and rather quick. I love the doubled band; at first I was worried about it turning out too small due to my ridiculous yarn substitution and the relative inelasticity of stocking stitch, but it turned out great and it keeps in the heat well. It has already seen a lot of usage, and a few non-stitch'n'bitch members have asked me where they can find the pattern.

On my trip to Tampere last year, I found the time to purchase altogether too many skeins of pirkkalanka from the outlet shop there, and this green yarn is some of that. How could I resist half-price pirkkalanka, and in this great green! I love how there's some yellow blended into it. Very cool. The rest of it is planned for the sunrise circle jacket, blended with Rowan Felted Tweed. Yep, stole that idea straight from Mustaavillaa.


So, after the yarn diet which lasted the better part of last year, I'm going to keep track of what's going in and out of the yarn closet this year. There's a running total up on the right of the page, showing how much has come in and how much has been stitched into finished objects. Oh, how quickly the discrepancy shows.