This textured hat is knitted from the brim up and has a unique coil technique that creates beautiful crown-like pops. I’m always looking for stitch patterns with nupps, bobbles or buds and constantly devising ways to incorporate them in my knitting, as I find three-dimensional fabric interesting to create and attractive to wear.

“Spring coils” are another way to add a decorative motif to your fabric and enrich it with high texture. The Fall Coil hat is a great small project to practice this coil technique. The coils are made every 5 rounds by winding the yarn around the needles, stretching out the wraps, then pulling them snug to form a nice, compact spring-like coil. I especially like it because you can control the tightness of the coils by pulling the yarn tighter or looser, as you like. Once you master making these coils, you can easily incorporate them in many knitted garments.