Textured Bricks is the twenty second addition to the 7 Hats More ebook.

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Pattern is both written and charted.

I love my job! It is a constant source of inspiration!

A new yarn came into the store on Thursday, Fleece Artist Slubby Mix. A gorgeous Merino and BFL blend thick and thin yarn dyed in some of Fleece Artists fabulous colours! The yarn is only new to the store – it has been around, or similar yarns have been around for a while. Slubby Mix is a soft, squishy bunch of warm and I thought that it would make a great cowl.

I took home the Boreal and Earth colourways. I loved the way the two colours looked together even before I started knitting. And Voilà, come Saturday, a new pattern was born! It was just going to be a cowl, but I thought that I could get a cap out of what was left over and did. If you want both pieces out of the yardage, watch your gauge as I had nothing but scrapes left once I created the looped finish for the cap.

Materials: 9.0mm US #13, 24-inch circs for the cowl and 8.0mm US #11, 16-inch circ and dpn’s for the hat, 2 differently coloured hanks of a super bulky yarn, 100m per 125 grs hank, 200m in total, markers, and the regular notions.

Gauge: Cowl – 10 sts (2.5 pattern repeats) equals 4 inches in pattern. 20 rows equal 4 inches in pattern. Pattern worked with 9.0mm needle. Hat – 11 sts equals 4 inches in pattern. Pattern worked with 8.0mm needle.

Textured Bricks is an easy slip st pattern. It is worked in garter st and the slipped stitch patterning breaks up the colours of the two yarns in a very organic way, adding to the already organic textural look of the thick and thin yarns.