bernie b beanie

After making the Cable beanie for a friend and realising how cool it was to have that extra beak bit that protects your face, I decided that I needed a new winter hat for myself. Because this friend had a particularly large head, rather than making the same beanie but smaller I decided to try a different pattern.

The Honeycomb stitch is a really cute pattern, so I thought I’ll give that a go using some black Rowan Cashsoft Aran. Now if I had been hand machine knitting this would have been a cinch, but hand kniting cables sometimes can take quite an annoyingly long time if it is a stitch that requires many cross overs. The Honeycomb stitch does. Time to change original plan.

I decided to graduate the pattern out giving that broken up look and it’s worked out quite well. Thinking about it if I had completed the pattern throughout it may have looked too busy, looking at this free Honeycomb Hat pattern I just thought I didn’t want to look like a tea cosy!

bernie b in her bernie b beanie

bernie b beanie - detail