Midst noun the middle point, part, or stage

Low effort, high impact. That’s what I’m looking for in my knitting these days. And this really does the job. All that stockinette is as mellow as it gets. And the stripe is ever so much more distracting than it has any right to be. You put the two together and somehow both the knitting and the finished product are a little bit magical.

A lot of the magic really comes down to the yarn. Of course you can use solids or semi solids and it will look great (those yarns pretty much always look great no matter what). But if you have a speckled yarn, or a super variegated yarn, or some other highly opinionated yarn that you can’t quite figure out what to do with…well this is what you do with it. You give it lots of stockinette so it doesn’t feel crowded (so many obstreperous yarns just need a little space to shine on their own terms without any patterning to obscure their charms). Then you find a fuzzy yarn that works nicely with one of the colors in your opinionated yarn, and you sit back and watch the two of them play together.

You really are going to have fun (which is good, since I have it on good authority that these hats often end up getting claimed by anyone who sees them, so you may well end up making more than one)!

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