Seasons Hat Kits

When we launched Spring Thaw last month, we also launched our inaugural BT knitting kit – the Seasons Hat. We waited to mention this on the blog, since we weren't sure what to expect in terms of demand right out of the gate. Though we sold through our first limited run of these kits pretty quickly, we've been busy working on Batch Two so that we could make a formal announcement here. For those of you who wanted a kit but weren't able to snag one when we launched, all four colorways are back in stock as of today! (Though how long they last is yet to be seen...)

The kits include five hand-wound mini-skeins of Loft in colors and amounts corresponding to your chosen colorway. We've also included a physical copy of the Seasons pattern – an 8-page folio printed on saddle-stitched card stock. Kits ship in our signature BT packaging. I remember falling in love with this banded colorwork motif when I visited Shetland in the Summer of 2010 and saw it on a pair of hand knit gloves that I purchased from one of the regional knitters there. I've since swatched it several times for different design ideas, and it finally found its home with this one.

I used this motif in much of my early experimenting with multi-colored stranded knitting from the Loft palette. When it was time to decide which colorway to use for the final sample – I just couldn't pick one. It was there that the idea of the "Seasons" were born. The four final versions were inspired by color families from each season.

We hope to expand our kit offerings later this year with more colors and more projects – it's a fun variation on yarn ordering, not to mention a great gift idea for those die-hard knitters in our lives. (We've even had some of our own staff members clamoring for them...) We hope you like them – happy kitting! __________________ Resources: Seasons Hat kits are available for purchase on our web site here. Hat design by Jared Flood. Packaging and printed pattern are printed/produced in the US.