Welcome to the Flora Adora learn along hosted by our friends at Blue Sky Fibers! This is the first make along of its kind for Blue Sky Fibers, and we are excited to learn along with you while making the whimsical Flora Adora Hat designed by Mary Pranica!

Over four weeks we’ll progress through corrugated rib, colorwork, the Latvian braid, chart reading, decreasing, embroidery and pom-pom making!

Supported by weekly tutorials and helpful videos, the Flora Adora Hat is ideal for intermediate knitters and anyone excited to add new techniques to their toolboxes! The learn along begins February 18 and runs through March 18!

Materials

The Flora Adora Hat calls for one 50g hank of Blue Sky Fibers Woolstok (Worsted) and one Woolstok Mini Bundle. In addition to your yarn, you will need a US size 6 and US size 7 16" circular needles, US size 7 double pointed needles (or preferred needle for small circumference knitting), a stitch marker, pom-pom maker, and a tapestry needle.

We have colors available to make the two colorways shown in the pattern. First is Grey Harbor with the Bramble & Fig mini bundle. Followed by Highland Fleece with the Fire & Ice mini bundle.

Pattern

The pattern for the Flora Adora hat will be available as a free download on blueskyfibers.com as well as Ravelry during the learn along. It will be a paid pattern after the event as ended.

Assistance

If you want to participate but are anxious about some of the techniques being used, we have a variety of resources available to help you through the pattern! Our instructors schedule BYOP (Bring Your Own Project) sessions as well as Quick Help times which are great opportunities to learn a new skill or navigate a particularly tricky technique.

* Please remember to schedule these sessions ahead of time as we are not able to accommodate walk-ins at this time!

Not able to make it in to see us? We offer Virtual Stitch Sessions with our instructors who can guide you through the steps from the comfort of your own home!

Tutorials

In addition to personalized help from our instructors, we have video tutorials online at MFY+ (our YouTube channel)! 

Blue Sky Fibers will also be posting video tutorials each week as part of the learn along event. You will find those tutorials on their YouTube channel as well as their Vimeo channel. You can also check back each week for the latest link!

Week 1 - February 18

Week 2 - February 25

Week 3 - March 4

Week 4 - March 11

Community

Join in or follow all of the activity on Instagram and Facebook! There will be chatter happening in the Blue Sky Fibers Ravelry group, the Blue Sky Fibers Facebook group and you are always welcome to chat in our private MFY Make Along Facebook group! We also stitch together (almost) every Friday from 2:00-4:00pm and you are encouraged to drop in any time - we'd love to see you!

About the Designer

Mary Pranica is a knitting designer based out of Minneapolis, Minnesota, and the talented and charismatic human behind many of Blue Sky Fibers most popular patterns! You can follow Mary on Instagram (@mpranica) and peruse her projects on Ravelry! She claims to have two addictions - coffee and knitting - and we can relate! 

As you work on your project, we would love if you share your progress by tagging us on Instagram and/or Facebook @michiganfineyarns and using our project hashtags #michiganfineyarns #MFYkal.