A&S 50/50 Challenge: Nalbound Cap #17

Wool Cap #17

Brand of Wool: Paton's Classic Wool
Colours: Fall Variegated
Stitch: Coptic
Notes: Second run at the coptic stitch. The stitches are looser  than on the first coptic hat. It is obvious that I have figured out how to increase with the coptic stitch. As with the last coptic hat the working edge curls severely, making it hard to measure width or depth of the hat.

The variegated yarn creates some interesting stripes with this stitch, rather than blocks of colour like other stitches. I assume this is because the coptic more closely resembles knitting and the yarn was made for knitting.

A&S 50/50 Challenge: Nalbound Cap #11

Wool Cap #11

Brand of Wool: Paton's Classic Wool
Colours: Yellow
Stitch: Coptic Stitch
Notes: Started with the Josephine knot but got the slip know backwards. As I was working the top row came undone. I laced a piece of yarn through and tied a knot to close the peak. I ran out of yellow so I used red for the rest of the hat. It actually looks nice and has a nicely shaped peak. I think I would prefer if all my hats were either smooth or shaped like this, instead of the pixie acorn cap shapes I get sometimes.

The coptic stitch is the only nalbound stitch that I know of that looks like knitting, and will unravel like knitting. Near the top my increases were quite sloppy but they became much smoother as I worked further down. The mistakes and sloppy increases are easier to see in the red than in the yellow.