Hi, Judy from Witchpeacecraft. Welcome. Well, I've been on a bit of a slouch beanie binge and I have some ugly colored yarn to share with you. So let's get started. My slouch beanie binge started with Bodhada Paloosa. For last week it was tutorial 763, easy to crochet slouch beanie. 763 is the tutorial on boddo baguaday's tutorial list. I'll leave it in the description below the links so you can check it out. So I thought, well why not use more of this baby pastel colored super saver because you needed two colors and I thought, oh, it goes really well with that green which is hobby. Now depending on how you want to pronounce it, Malaga or Malaga yarn. And they were the two colors I thought I would do because I thought they would look good. Well the actual tutorial was really easy. She says it's for a intermediate but I think a beginner taking their time would be able to do it. But here's my slouch beanie. I made it slightly more slouch than crystal-ad. I think I did another set of puff stitches and rows and I did a bit more on the brim. But there you go, my slouch beanie. I just I think maybe the pastel was a bit pale and I should have used a stronger color for the bodhall stitch. But that was the beginning of my slouch beanie binge. I crocheted beanie by Bodhada. So now they're both four weights by the way. The Malaga Malaga is a four weight and so is the spotlight. But they're pretty light four weights but they were a good match and they did crochet well together. I'm just not sure I did a good color choice together. So then I got a bit of a message from my Etsy shop. A lady had been looking at my past sales and she noticed a slouch beanie and she favoured it and she did ask me if I planned to make any more this year. And it is quite a popular one. I have sold a few of them and I do like making them. It's a knitted beanie. There is a pattern for it's a free pattern. It's actually a man's slouch pattern but it's definitely Uni-6. Any beanie can be Uni-6 really. I don't have it with me. What I will do is I'm going to do free pattern Friday for July this week so I'll have it listed there for you to check out. It's a pattern from Canada. I've just got to find it because what's happened over the years is I memorized the pattern, muscle memory and I change it to get a different look each time. But the actual standard pattern I'll show you on free pattern Friday. So I decided yes I would make some for my Etsy shop and I would make them different. The one she favoured it was in Lion Brand Fisherman's Yarm from ages ago. Anyway I put it on the model. I started with click-heatens naturals. Now the ones I've sold have always either been pure wool or a wool blend. So click-heat and country naturals apply. This is the green. I've lost the ball bands to the yellow other colour that I actually used. They only have colour numbers and this is actually when I find it. Well it's being a ply or three weight years, a 4mm crochet hook and a 4mm knitting needle. There is a beanie pattern on some of the labels if you want one. I keep trying to find because it's a 9% wool. It is. Don't don't don't. 85% Australian wool, 10% acrylic and 5% visco made in Australia. So that's the actual wool band for that colour. The colour I made is a beige colour and I decided I wouldn't make it as slouchy and big as the one she favoured it. This is mine. It's more a little relaxed slouch. The one I did was quite big. But that's the knitted slouch that I do and I say I change it up every time. It's got a 2x2 rib. I made you less in between. It is just a knitted beanie and I cast on what I think to fit this particular yarn. It took almost 250g balls so let's say it's 100g and yes that one will be going in my Etsy shop when I take some photos. So then I decided because I'd been looking through my yarn I came across this ugly coloured yarn. I bought it when I was learning to do socks because they threw this particular colour out on a very good special one. I thought it doesn't really matter for socks. I'll use this yarn. So here's my ugly coloured yarn. Every time I look at it I think ugly and it's called not just socks by Moira. It just pulls at a moment. Yes we still have a lot of playing over here. So this is not just socks by Moira. It's 50% super wash wool, 25% colour my 25% bamboo. And the colour is called grey pink blue. So there you have it. It's probably looking better on camera than it does in personal person. But every time I look at it I couldn't even use it for socks and our 100g balls with 420m. So it's a sock weight, very light sock weight. So and it takes a 3.25mm knitting needle and I thought you know what I'm going to make a slouch hat out of this yarn and put it in the Etsy shop. Maybe someone will like it. Some guy or somebody might actually like it. So I'll show you how the other thing too about it was I thought gee it's not very soft for socks you know they could be a little coarse on the feet. So that also put me off using it. But I did pick it up as a bargain. So I decided to do another slouch hat using the same pattern and making it a little different. And here it is. It's a bit slouchier because it's a bigger size. I did a 3x2 rib for this one, 3x2. I did bigger smaller, bigger, smaller and I changed it up a bit. But that is my slouch hat in the ugly yarn. Now the color still doesn't appeal to me or the mixes of blues and pinks and grays. But the actual yarn did knit up really soft. And what I did was I held two balls together to get an 8 ply. The pattern itself is actually 4 or 4 ply but I like 8 ply slouch so or 3 weight. So I actually held two balls together and that's what I have left from two 100 gram balls and I have another one. So I might have to use up all this ugly colored yarn and get it out of my yarn stock. Said basically they were my slouch hats. Then I have been on a bit of a binge making. Actually I have another one on this needles but this one is going to be for me. Sorry I shook the camera. I'm making it in leftovers and it's for my trip when I go to the UK especially when I got to Edinburgh because apparently it's quite windy and cold out there even in summer. So yes I do have another one on the needles. So guys that is my slouch hat. Binge with my ugly colored yarn. Yes you could leave in the comment below which hat you like the best one two or three the crocheted in the green and pastel or number two the beigey naturals or three the ugly hat. But there you go. Let me know what you think and do you have any ugly colored yarn in your stash that actually might knit up better than or crochet up better than you think. So there you go. Thanks for watching. Until next time I will see you on free pattern Friday. Bye for now.