Day 42, Hat 6: This hat is a lesson in fair isle execution. I skipped posting yesterday because I thought I might frog my work. Today I kept going to the end of the motif... and I’m going to frog it anyway. The top is my progress, the bottom is the pattern I’m using, from Mary Jane Mucklestone’s book, 200 Fair Isle Motifs. My version is just wrong. You can’t see the quatrefoils. Rather than making the yellow pop, the slate dulls it down. Swapping them would make the pattern stand out better but slate would then be too prominent among the cheery colors. So I’m scrapping it for another color, and I know it’ll be better. C’est la vie. #ithappens #lessonlearned #fairisle #gonewrong #sixrowsaday #knitting #knitstagram #knittersofinstagram #knittersgonnaknit #knittersgonnafrog #maryjanemucklestone #cloudbornfibers