Feeling Knitspired: Expensive Designer Cap, But Easy to Make!

Found on the web at The Fashion Police, a quite expensive knit beanie hat (65 euros!) that’s very cute, with a built-in client (the blogger wants it, and would love it knitted for her), plus = this hat isn’t hard to knit!

Well, as far as hats go. I’m up for this challenge, although the pattern will be altered, because I just don’t have the attention to properly knit the rib stitch.

The cap, by Sonia Rykiel, is sold out, but I know it came in green and bright purple. I myself see it in red. I’d love to try salmon, black, creme, a soft pine green, and of course (close to) the green from the original and a subtle violet. I’d buy a cashmere blend yarn supply for this (and the proper-toned green in 100% wool), but I can get started sooner with the blend yarn (it’s soft!) in red discarded from my defunkt Halloween costume. (I couldn’t work it out, alas, not this year.) I also have white and red in that yarn from household projects.

*Note: the yarns in the photo may not be used. I’ve already selected new colors.*

Another change: I’d like to do a stripe of shiny ribbon yarn in the centre of the ribbon piece. I’m going to make the ribbon part extend onto the base of the hat, therefore I will knit the bottom separately. This will allow for the feature of an un-tiable ribbon so one can have small bow/long ribbon or the opposite!

By the way, the $95.97 designer version doesn’t even have cashmere in it. And I hope to sell mine for around $30. You might be able to snag a different color if you preorder a hat soon!