Have you heard about Schachenmayr’s My Mountain collection? It is a great collection of quick to knit and quick to crochet yarns and patterns geared toward the active lifestyle.
Schachenmayr is offering loads of free hat patterns to knit and crochet. Our own designers Kirsten Hipsky and Sara Delaney also designed a few hats that are available for free on our website. You’ll want to check them out!
In conjunction with the launch, Schachenmayr held a hat design contest. There were 215 entries and 18 semifinalist were chosen. Voting is now taking place for the top 5. You can head over to Facebook to vote. (Mobile users can vote here.)
My hat, Punctuated, was chosen as one of the semifinalists (Hi! I’m Mary, the Marketing Manager here at WEBS. We may not have met, but you may have seen me in our Show & Tell features on the blog, at a Stitches event, or read some of my past posts here on the blog.) and I couldn’t be more excited. I haven’t designed many items, so for this to be chosen was huge for me.
Here’s a little back story about my design: My favorite colors are pink and gray, so when we received Schachenmayr Boston and I saw the neon pink, I knew I had to do something with it (I’m a sucker for bright pinks and fuchsias). It may seem silly, but I have a favorite punctuation and it is the interrobang, which is this: ?! (it is also expressed as a single, combined character, but I prefer this version). My friends know that I love using it and it usually shows up at least once in an email or text conversation. The interrobang asks a question in an excited manner, expresses excitement or disbelief in the form of a question, or asks a rhetorical question.
The last two years haven’t been easy for me personally, so the interrobang and its expression of disbelief in the form of a question really resonated with me and fit in to how I was feeling. In the end, the hard stuff (and there was a lot of it) was worth it because I know how many amazing people I have in my life who truly care about me. So in a way, the interrobang will always be a reminder to me that even when stuff gets crazy and stops making sense, there are folks to ground me and let me know that it’s going to be okay.
You can vote for photo one per IP address, per day. I’d appreciate it if you would vote for my hat when you’re selecting your favorites.
Make sure you also check out all of the My Mountain yarns and patterns from Schachenmayr. It’s a great way to get a jump start on your gift-making! 🙂
