Slideways Hat

The Slideways Hat is a double-knitted hat, made with two different colours of squishy DK-weight yarn, creating a hat that is not only as warm and cosy as you could ever need, but as it is double-knitting, you get to turn it inside out, and wear your hat with the colours reversed.

Just right for matching perfectly with your outfit du jour!

Unlike the majority of double-knitting patterns available, where all the stitches in the finished object stack up on top of each other in orderly rows and columns, like the squares on the charts you knit them from, the Slideways Hat pattern takes advantage of what is sometimes called “off-the-grid” design, where the clever use of judiciously placed increases and decreases actually skews the columns of stitches this way and that, creating texture and patterns that can’t be achieved under ordinary circumstances.