EZ’ing again

I’m starting to notice a pattern. A pattern in my yarn-buying/project deciding of late. If I get just a couple of skeins of worsted weight wool, I’m quite likely to turn it into a hat or a scarf.  This is the second time I’ve bought enough yarn to make a pair of felted clogs, and ended up with a different project than intended.

I have wanted to make EZ’s “a very warm hat” for a while now, because it’s such a clever project.  It’s two hats knitted together, and then you push the one up inside the other and voila! “A Very Warm Hat.”

I did the tan part just plain, but decided to use one of her stranded patterns from The Opinionated Knitter and do some colorwork on the green side. The snowflake worked out just about perfectly for this hat.  I then kind of made up a little band of color just before starting the decreases.  The  hat pattern is also in Knitting Around and I believe in Knitting Without Tears only called something like “Two Color Hat.”  It always makes me smile to make one of Elizabeth Zimmermann’s small projects. Some day, I’ll buy enough yarn to make one of her sweaters.  Hopefully I won’t end up wth a houseful of hats and scarves if I do that.