This was made for my MIL’s best friend, Bernice, who had requested a hat made by me. She wears black often and loves anything sparkly. In this year of trying to use only my stash, I was determined to meet the parameters without buying anything. I used some discontinued “tube” yarn that is for making the scrunchy scarves. It was the only black yarn I had that was sparkly. I unraveled the tube into its 4 strands and then knit the hat using the 4 strands held together. The pattern of the cables are not very visible due to the yarn texture and sparkles. I could have used a simpler pattern.
Pattern is “Cable Convergence” by Universal Yarn. It can be found still on Ravelry for free, but is no longer on the UY website. Yarn is Mondial Malizia. Discontinued many moons ago, but if you have it in your stash, here’s an idea for using it.
Yes, the scrunchy scarves are not my style, but the tubes were on clearance some time ago at Tuesday Morning for $1.17 each. My frugal self could not pass them up. I had no idea you could do it either until I saw a post from a knitter on Rav who had unraveled a different one and had made a lace weight sweater from the strands. Some of the tubes are one long strand, some are multiple strands.
