Obstreperous adjective stubbornly resistant to control

I’m not a big fan of rules. Well, let’s break that down a bit. I’m not a big fan of someone else coming along and telling me ‘you have to do it this way, it’s the rule’ without actually explaining to me just what those rules are and why I should follow them.

And colorwork seems to have a lot of rules (at least according to a certain vocal subset of knitters). Make sure your yarns are the same weight. Use one yarn at a time. Carry each color across the whole piece. Keep your floats short. Turns out, you can break each and every one of those rules and still come out with an awfully nifty project.

If you feel up to a little bout of rule breaking and decide to make this, you’ll use different weight of yarns (one should be a fluffy lace weight, the other can be anything from fingering through worsted weight). Sometimes you’ll hold both yarns together, sometimes you’ll use just one. You’ll use the fluffy yarn on only part of the hat. And you’ll make scandalously long floats (that you will later cut short in an act of unspeakably satisfying knitterly defiance).

And in the end, after all that scandalous flouting of the rules, you’ll have a lovely, tidy, orderly hat (which will be all the more delightful because you know you someone out there would be scandalized by how you put it together).

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