The Best Toque Pattern + Wool
I always see hipsters walking around with ridiculous toques (beanies for you American friends) pushed way up on their heads + all I ever wanted to do was to own one myself + pull off that toque is 'up too high' look - and yet this seemlingly too basic to bother style remained elusive. That is one day until I combined the perfect hipster wool + pattern + have fallen madly in love with my favourite toque.
I'm really allergic to wool. Sure I get the "it makes everyone scratchy" but when a friend tricked me into wearing wool + left me with a red and inflamed rash on my neck for the rest of the day, I gained the allergy respect I deserved. I can knit with it, but I can't have it sitting on my skin for too long, so I made this toque for Kyle + then asked the community how I could make it ok for my poor sensitive skin to handle it.
Guys, the obvious answer was to use my shit ton of hair as a protective barrier and wear it way too high on my head just like the hipster I always wanted to be!
Maybe the other hipsters aren't so much cool, as sensitive allergic souls just like myself.
Speaking of hipsters, the wool I use is Brookyln Tweed. Like. That name. How could I not want it? Plus the wool is like, kind of badly made? It's not quite a worsted weight and they call the thickness Shelter. The wool is mottled + goes from thick to thin and isn't consistent. AND HOT DAMN I LOVE EVERY BIT OF THAT. Seriously it makes the nicest things. And they look all unique + lumpy but not gross lumpy. So. good. [if you're into wool you should read how they describe it. Straight up poetry "is woolen spun, meaning the fibers remain in a lofty jumble that traps air and offers remarkable warmth and lightness..."]
How many skiens of Brooklyn Tweed wool does it take for a hipster to make a toque?
Some obscure number you've probably never heard of.
But for realz, it takes like 1.65.
Also, I suppose now is the time to re-acknowledge I made this toque for Kyle + I'm pretty sure he's only got to wear it once.
Anyway I wear this toque almost every chance I get. The pattern is Roku by Olga Jazzy + I love it + am making it in 2 more colours . Because then Kyle + I can wear our toques together + match. Because, matching. Because, also, less guilty about stealing his toque.
You can also find the Olga Jazzy patterns on Ravelry.
The colours I used are woodsmoke for the one I've been wearing // soot on my needles // cast iron for the black that's up next. As you know, I like to go really bold and colourful with my choices.
Ok, but for real I can't even. Look at how they describe the colour of soot: "Salt and pepper in equal measure. Soot is a strong cinder grey that bridges the gradient between Sweatshirt and Cast Iron." Shit I want to own that so badly. Well done marketing team. Well done! I also want to buy the sweatshirt colour as I'm pretty sure it's the colour of the sweater I'm wearing in the picture below.
so gd fly
We do not condone his + hers styling, but we live it because sometimes people with really good taste end up looking sort of similar.