At the beginnign of February, I published my first pattern of the year : Azulejos, a 3-colours stranded-colourwork hat. It took me nearly 18 months between the first sticthes and the reveal of the pattern, which is quite a long time for such a small project, but this pattern had twists and turns… April 2018, The Channe Thread yarn festival : I fell for 1 skein and 2 mini-skeins of The little GRey Sheep Hampshire 4ply. When I bought them, I was already thinking about a stranded-colourwork hat. September 2018 : I drew my first attempts of colourwork charts, inspired by the painted tiles I’ve admired in Portugal and Spain. I hadn’t knitted the hat yet, but I already had its future name… As soon as I had my mind set on a colourwork chart, I put my skeins in balls and begun to knit, improvising the crown of the hat as I went. By the end of September, I was taking the finished hat with me on a long week-end with friends, hoping to take pictures of it… Coming home from that week-end away, I had no pictures of it, no notes about its construction besides the base chart and I had lost my hat ! I searched for it everywhere, even calling the rental we had stayed, but I couldn’t find it anywhere ! I was so disappointed, especially because I didn’t have enough yarn left to knit it again… Trying to move on, I decided to start a new project an wait until I could buy more yarn to make it again. After a few month (April 2019), I found my way back to Emma and The little Grey Sheep booth at The Channel Thread yarn festival. There, I bought yarn to make 2 new samples of my idea : one with the same colours as my first sample for myself (in blue tones), the other for one of my daughter (pink-purple tones). A few months passed by before I got to work again on this pattern idea. At the end of August, I put the first combo (the same as my first lost sample, size M) on my needles, and very soon after that, I begun the second hat (smaller, Size S) and I even ordered enough yarn to make a bigger 3rd one (green tones, Size L). This time, I take notes and save all…
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