Reversible Hat Video
Want a Cozy Winter Hat?
You can’t go wrong with a reversible, doubled toque like Full Spectrum. This kind of hat is knitted as a long tube, starting from one crown and ending at the other crown. To wear, you pull one side inside the other for the very cushy, warm hat. Here’s how it works:
No audio. Andrea is showing off a reversible colour blocked toque, pulling it apart and then putting it back together and putting both sides on her head of messy braid hair.
Full Spectrum Toque
In the video I’m highlighting the Twinkle colourway from Gauge Dye Works since that limited edition yarn is available just this week. (Here’s a post with more suggestions for patterns to go with the Twinkle yarn.) That sample was made following the pattern except leaving out the geometric colourwork pattern. Here’s the original hat from a Gauge collaboration. One side has a groovy rainbow and the other features geometric colourwork.
Cara is wearing a toque with a muted rainbow around the brim.
Cara's head viewed from above. She's wearing a snug beanie in grey blue with beige 3-D transparent boxes around the brim.
This pattern is so versatile
In another version of this toque, I opted for a deep ribbed brim rather than fully doubling the hat. I held a regular fingering weight wool together with a strand of mohair silk for extra fluff and just did a tubular bind-off after completing some extra long ribbing. Read my post with more details on how to make this version here. (The sweater in the next photo is Dissent Pullover.)
Andrea’s profile as she looks down. The focus is on her folded-brim toque and the patterned yoke of her mustard and grey sweater.
You can buy the pattern for Full Spectrum here on my website or on Ravelry. For more ideas on how many ways Full Spectrum can be knit, have a look at the many Ravelry projects made by other knitters.
Full Spectrum is a clever reversible hat with fetching stripes on one side and pleasing geometric colourwork on the other. It’s worked from the crown of one side, through the brim, and to the crown of the other, so that the whole doubled hat is worked in one piece. It was designed in collaboration with Gauge Dye Works - their self-striping yarn makes this an addicting and enjoyable knit!
The yarn designed for this pattern is available in three colourways from Gauge Dye Works.
There’s also a cheery Twinkle colourway! You can get the colour-blocked version for the toque (it would also be great for the Botanical Sampler cowl) or the multi-striped version for the Saxe Point socks.
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