Ridgeback Beanie Knitting Pattern

Beautiful hat!

This was a new stitch for me, so I started the hat over 5 times before I understood it. When I ran into trouble I couldn’t get past, I emailed Jenny and she helped me right away. I’ll be making many more of these now that I have it down!

Kind of like magic...

I'm still new enough to knitting that when I read a pattern I have a very difficult time envisioning how it actually works. With the Ridgeback, I was really worried I wasn't going to be able to do the special stitches without extra help from the designer, but I had already had positive interactions with her, so I trusted it would all come together. Turns out, if you pre-read, and then-reread the steps, the stitches just work, they come together, and low-and-behold, the hat looks like the main image of the pattern. I find it fascinating someone can pull these types of visions together, and as someone who very much cannot, I appreciate and am grateful for Jenny's designs. <3