There is nothing I love more than playing with all the techniques that knitting offers us as creative ways to use stash! Entrelac, with its multiple squares, set up in rows or rounds offers multiple options. In this hat I chose a solid coloured yarn and followed it up with a self striping yarn. I could have knit the hat with only the Noro Saiun (self striping) or knit each round of squares in a different colour or each square itself in a different colour. The possibilities are as varied as our imaginations!

Sometimes called Swedish Basketweave, Entrelac is a method of creating a look of a woven pattern by knitting individual triangles and squares. The technique employs both short-rows and the picking up of stitches. The knitting is not difficult once you understand the concept of how the squares are created. The Entrelac technique creates a diagonal, bias fabric, which is looser and stretchier in nature than regular knitting and is usually knit with smaller needles than the ball band of the yarn would suggest.

This is a large or floppy beret, meaning it fits more like a slouchy hat than a standard beret. The crown shaping is created by decreasing the size of the rectangles.