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where did you get the pattern for the MONKEY?? I have never done intarsia but I have a girlfriend that would FREAK if I made that for her!!! :cheering: :cheering:
I’m so jealous you made the sock monkey hat !! I have been carrying the pattern around with me for weeks looking for the yarn. My husband works with an adaptive ski program for children and so he will wear any crazy hat I make him. So how are was intarsia?
aineepooh1: i got the pattern from Knitty.com. It was the first time I did intarsia too, and i didn’t find too difficult, and the videos here are a real help!
PS I didn’t use the prescribed yarn: I found some grey/black marl stuff that looked like socks and twined three strands together to make one. If i did it again, I would probably use four strands. It came off a monster size cone that I found at a thrift store. I just used the stands as one, and knit a swatch to check for relative tension. Since its not a sweater I just checked to see if it would fit a human head! The other yarn in the hat was just odd sport weight used double.
I’ve been fooling around with the cheaper thrift store buys in yarn for a while until I get up to speed. Does it show that I am cheap?
I would say though that I wouldn’t use the multi-strand approach without a lot of work space. At one time I was working with seven balls of yarn dangling off the monkey hat! I plan on winding the three strands ionto one ball for the next hat …