A colourful toque and a striped pair of socks are laying on a sheepskin rug. They’re in bright shades of green, blue, red, pink, beige, and grey. The socks have a jaunty colourwork lights motif at the cuff.

Do you love stripes?

Last year Gauge Dye Works and I did a fun alternate version of our Saxe Point socks design with a new striped colourway and a new colourwork chart. Now we’re bringing that Twinkle back, plus a new colour blocked version of the yarn!

We got a Full Spectrum toque knit up in the new colourway — it’s reversible and ever so cozy! I took this opportunity to update the Full Spectrum pattern so it matches my current layout with black text and easy printing, among other improvements. I also added some extra info about how to use just a single skein of yarn without worrying about the “rainbow” stripe section or the colourwork section of the original pattern.

You can get the pattern here on my website or on Ravelry and pre-order the yarn on the Gauge website.

A skein of colourful yarn next to a funny-looking knit object. It’s a toque that will be folded inside itself to create a doubled, reversible hat, but it’s laid out to show you the overall shape when unfolded, which is two hats meeting in the middle, so a dome on top and on bottom with ribbing in the middle. It’s pink, red, green, and blue.

One extra fun thing about the pattern and yarn combo is that it could be different depending on which end of the yarn that you start with. In our version, we started with pink, so you get all the pink, red, and green, and most of the blue. So if you make this version you’ll end up with some grey left over to use in scrappy socks or as a colourwork contrast colour in another project. OR, you could cast on in grey and go the other direction to get a grey, blue, green, and red toque. Here’s a colour map showing what the yarn looks like.

A simple striped colour palette graphic with vertical columns of pink, red, green, blue, and grey.

Other Ideas

This yarn would also work perfectly for a festive version of the Botanical Sampler cowl. It’s got five equal stripes exactly like the original Botanical Sampler cowl yarn, so you can just follow the pattern exactly.

And of course, there’s last year’s fun Saxe Point socks with the Twinkle chart. When you buy Saxe Point, the Twinkle chart is included as a free bonus, so you can pick if you want flowers or holiday lights at the top of your socks. Plus, I made a tutorial on how to do the duplicate stitch to brighten up your lights motif.