It is often asked when I’ll be putting the pattern out for the Quarter-Ridge hat (as seen below). I always say “soon” or “sometime this year”, but it’s been…well, it’s been much longer than that.

It occurred to me that this hat was made with a worsted weight, and that hats are often made in a worsted, chunky or bulky yarn in crochet. My mind has been obsessed with finer yarns–DK, fingering, lace. The weights, in particular, are on my mind since these are the weights that I often dye for The Yarn Side.

Why not, I thought, reinvent the Quarter-Ridge in a fingering weight or DK? I don’t remember where the notes are for the hat, since it’s been a few years now, but I remember the construction–mostly. I’ve decided to swatch a bit, in both the Andromeda (DK) and, probably, the Walker Merino (fingering) bases that I have. Could maybe do a lovely semi-solid instead of a flat solid.

It’ll be a little adventure and dip into my crochet history. I may find that I can’t remember exactly what I did, and take the design into a new direction, or I’ll remember exactly what I did and it’ll be awesome, prove troublesome, grow legs and move out because it’s all grown up now and doesn’t have to listen to me anymor

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