West Desert Hood Finished

Well, it took me longer to finish than I expected. And I made it VERY long so I could use all my wonderful colors. But it looks good (not on me strangely, so I let my niece model it). The colors really are very beautiful and the ombré effect of the background color is interesting. I only had small amounts of different tans from the dyeing I did so that was my solution to the background. Again, I put the pattern on the pattern page.

Due to technical difficulties with Google Docs, I downloaded all of my patterns to Ravelry so the pattern page will download directly from them. I hope this solves any problems anyone was having downloading the patterns.

I finished the hood while on a trip around Utah for work. I got lots of inspiration so stay tuned for many more Salt Lake inspired knits.

West Desert Hood

I am well on my way on the knitted hood. It looks great. The colors all look so beautiful together. I hope to finish it this weekend as we are going camping in the west desert. The colors and terrain will be my inspiration again for the hood.

Honeycomb Hood

I made this sketch of a fair isle pattern that might work but the more I think about that silk, the more reluctant I am to do a fair isle with it. There really is no give whatsoever in the silk. I think I will stick with the honeycomb. I made a swatch to check elasticity with the slipped stitches and for gauge. I think it is going to work and the colors look great together. Now to cast on. 

West Desert Hood

I like the look of this type of hood to use with my natural dyed silk. This pattern is from the Rowan Designer Summer and Winter Knitting.

I think I will pattern a fair isle or honeycomb silk hood similar to this shape. I will have to swatch both stitches. Now to choose a good fair isle pattern that echoes my inspiration of the West Desert.