Artist of Pentacles

I have had some lovely yarn in my stash and since I've had a big interest in using my stash a particular toque/hat came to be.

On the left is 547 yards of 100% merino hand-painted wool by AbiGood, a Nova Scotia company and on the right is some leftover creamy coloured yarn. They were both worsted weight. (One of the things about knitting as much as I do is that there is a bin full of lovely leftover yarn.)

The concept was to put these two colours together in a way that really allowed the beauty of the variegated cream, brown and pinky/red yarn to show through. On Ravelry I found a pattern by Jess Knowles called Artist of Pentacles. (She mentions in her explanation of the name of the pattern the Queen of Pentacles Tarot card. Should you want to know more about it, click here.)

Photo credit J. Knowles Ravelry

I really liked the interplay between the variegated blue/turquoise with the light brown in the photo above, but my hand-painted yarn has longer runs of colour. So this was another experiment to see what would happen with colours and how a different type of variegated yarn would look using this pattern. And here's the results.

I am satisfied that this worked, although a dark brown instead of cream yarn might have been a better contrast had I had any in my stash. This is toddler size so I'll see how impressed Miss M will be with it. If she doesn't like it, it can be donated.

The only down side of all this is a toque doesn't use much yarn so I still have some of cream and a lot of the variegated yarn left. Sigh, but it is less than before I made it. I seem to be taking baby steps with my stash.

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