Hat + scarf + mittens = happiness

So. I’m finally done with the hat+scarf+mittens=happiness combo that I’ve been knitting on for a while now. It’s hands down the most amazing yarn I have ever used. And worth every cent too.

What? Yay for me combo. That would be the work in progress name for it, and I’m searching my mind for a better one. The pattern is mostly mine, with inspiration taken from here, here and here.
Yarn: Malabrigo Worsted (100 % merino wool, 216 yards/197,5 m), Violetas, 3 skeins.
Needles: US4/3.5 mm for the hat and mittens, US8/5 mm for the scarf.

The hat is really just a simple cabled hat, with a so called horseshoe cable. The ribbing is on purpose done so that it will go right into the cables, which is also my favorite thing about it! I had to dull the color down a ton for the cables to even show. I assure you that the color is a lot more like it is in the other pictures!

The scarf has the same cable, the edging of the Ropes and Ladders Scarf and slightly uneven fringe. It’s as long as my wingspan. And that is unblocked. I’m a little scared to block it, actually, but I’m still going to. Just not the night before I’m supposed to take a trip where I want to be able to wear it.

The mittens have the same cable (oh how I love it!), an afterthought thumb, and are convertible. I don’t like the regular flap thing that most convertible mittens has, so I simply used the directions from this pattern to make a hole at the top of the palm. When I was finished with it I picked up and knitted a few extra rows to sort of cover the hole from the inside. I then sewed the edges of the little flap this created to the mitten. I think that when I write the pattern down (which will be soonish) I’m not going to write it as cast off and then picking up stitches, but rather as putting them on a holder. The only thing I wish I had done differently is this, but then again it’s because I’m a perfectionist and can see the line where the stitches were picked up.

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