Keep That Noggin Warm & Colorful

Autumn brings cool crisp days with vibrant colors and hues from the changing leaves. Natures color palette morphs into brilliant yellows, reds and oranges. It’s time to keep your noggin warm from the blustery days with a knit or crocheted hat.

In this hat the designer used kettle dyed yarn to “enhance the rustic leaf pattern.” Kettle dyed yarn allows beautiful variations in the shade of the yarn allowing regions of dark and light. Sort of like coloring your hair. You get highlights and low lights. The yarn used truly mimics the fall foliage.

Here’s a crocheted version of a leaf pattern using a solid color. When you look at the solid color it is sort of flat looking compared to the kettle dyed yarn. One dimensional so to speak. There’s nothing wrong with this. It’s a matter of preference.

Most knitters and crocheters use solid yarns. Kettle dyed or hand painted yarns can cost a lot more than the solids. One way to use solid colors is to use more than one in a project. Here, we have a great use of six colors.

And, now with four colors.

Knit Earflap Hat (Pumpkin Autumn Orange)

The purple color used as an accent in this pumpkin hat makes it pop, as does the use of two shades of green for the vine.

I love the use of a color we might not think of as autumnal. The rose pink above is actually in line with the autumn blooming Dahlia flower.

 Knit Cloche (Cloche Hat in Mustard Yellow)

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