TAMS

Below are pictures of tams that I finished last year. Both are from Vogue Knitting on the Go's "Hats" book. This is a great series of knitting books. I really do not care for the magazine itself; most of the patterns in Vogue Knitting magazine are overly trendy (perhaps to compete with its more prestigious sister publication Vogue) and would go out of fashion before one could spell schädenfreude. However, the Vogue Knitting on the Go books are great and are highly recommended.

Below is the fair isle tam from the cover of the book. A wonderful pattern and very soothing to knit. I substituted the yarns because our knitting shop does not carry the specified Harrisville yarns. So I used a combination of Silja and another sock yarn. There is a mistake at the top of the tam when I got the white yarn mixed in with the turquoise yarn. I thought about doing a duplicate stitch to cover up my mistake. But then, I decided to leave the mistakes in because I do not believe that every knitting project must be 100% perfect.


Below is an intarsia tam from the same book. Also a fun project. I made a minor boo-boo as a result of not reading the pattern carefully. The pattern specifed a decrease towards the top every other row. I did my decrease every row. Not a major error; the sample in the shop has a more conical shape because of the slower decrease. Mine has more of a dome and traditional tam shape because of the faster decrease. I also knitted this project using the Silja sock yarns. Because of the Silja yarns, both tams can be thrown into a cold washer.