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A Year of Techniques: Knitted-on Edging!
A Year of Techniques now takes a sharp turn from adorable, lanky mice and graceful swaths of intarsia toward a quick project that is going to up our style game considerably.
Friends, we are making a cloche.
A cloche is a close-fitting, bell-shaped hat. (Cloche is French for “bell,” just saying.)
Go ahead, google “Downton Abbey cloche.” (We just did it for you.) Every hat you adored in Downton Abbey was a cloche. The word that comes to mind is fetching. We are low on fetching in our knitted hat wardrobe, and it’s about time we did something about it.
The beloved designer Romi Hill brings her deep understanding of lace to her Talmadge Cloche.
In the MDK Shop
Our fearless leader, Jen Arnall-Culliford, explains it all for us in the video up top in her typically cool-headed way. And she includes quick lessons in cable cast on and knitted cast on. We Are Learning So Much, Y’all.
Here she is, fetching as ever.
Heh. My dad used to say “fetching.” That is indeed a fetching cloche!
I do not have a good hat head but I’m hoping I have a cloche head. If not there will surely be a Local Belle who will be delighted to wear a bell shaped hat.
I’m with you, no hat head, but I am going to forge ahead with fingers crossed (when I’m not knitting).
Fetching is underused in my daily vocabulary now, that is going to change. A great canvas for those couple of old buttons from the button jar (s). Fetching them now!
I like that hat. However, anything to do with Ravelry I run from.
Why?
Oh, I wish this delightful cloche would get me to knit the one I bought yarn & pattern for years ago! Ha!
I’m in the opposite of a started rut. I can’t figure out what to knit next. You know, like after reading a great book it’s hard to start another….
That color wash scarf may be just the ticket!
I have the perfect yarn and a head. And needles. I am all over this, mainly because I need a portable, easy-to-memorize pattern to knit at a conference over the next two days. Talmadge Clouche, here I come! (Whether I have the proper head and face for a cloche remains to be seen; however, I won’t know unless I try, right?)
love love LOVE!
Everyone looks good in cloches. Just saying.
This is not in my Ravelry library nor in my email. Anyone else with a subscription missing this pattern?
Hi Pam! If you drop me a message through our contact form on our website (https://www.acknitwear.co.uk/contact/), then we can get you all sorted out. Just let us have your full name, email address and Ravelry username, and we’ll make sure you can find all of your files.
Hi Pam! If you drop me a message through our contact form on our website (https://www.acknitwear.co.uk/contact/), then we can get you all sorted out. Just let us have your full name, email address and Ravelry username, and we’ll make sure you can find all of your files. You may also find the FAQ page for A Year of Techniques helpful: https://www.acknitwear.co.uk/a-year-of-techniques-faqs/
Just had a flashback to reading about a young boy who was learning to knit in school, and said that if his hat turned out to be too short when he cast off, he could just pick up stitches at the cast-on edge and knit more rows from that end. Remember that young boy, Ann? 🙂