For my mom's birthday, I made this simple cabled hat. With only a single skein of 126 yards, there wasn't enough yarn for a folded brim or a complex cable pattern. but I wanted something a bit more interesting than a plain stockinette hat. I decided on wavy, subtle cables. Like wind-blown sand dunes..

The Hope Spinnery wind-spun yarn is lovely. It varies a bit in how twisted the plies are. I just loved knitting with it. I've started spinning and maybe someday I can spin a yarn like it.

This hat is one of the many lined hats I am knitting this year. I used some dk-weight alpaca on this one. super soft. Lining hats is also one way to use up half-skeins of yarn, and you can employ a non-wool for those sensitive to itchiness. When using partial skeins, I usually let the amount of lining yarn determine the height of the liner, and knit until the yarn runs out. no leftovers = good.

I may have succeeded on adding this pattern to ravelry. Hrm, how to get a photo on the sand dunes hat ravelry page?

Pattern after the jump.

Hot off the presser foot, and just in time for last-minute Christmas shopping, I just posted a new series of box bags in the Streets and YOs etsy shop. They have wool tweed coating fabrics for the outside, and fun cotton print linings.