I’ve been wanting to knit a pair of hats, the southern and northern hemispheres. I found some Queensland Collection Kathmandu DK tweed that looked perfect. The colors are perfectly earthy. I found a map of the world, played around in Illustrator, and made a map 100 stitches wide.
My first problem was placing all the shaping along the edges, which looks great on a map, but would make for a funky hat.
So I adjusted everything to be a projection map, and decided to start work at the north pole. Here’s North America:
Does it look a little weird? Take a look Asia:
That doesn’t look right. Europe?
Darn it. Darn it! I get to rip out all this glorious intarsia and decide if I want to flip the chart or work from the bottom up. Sigh….
C T Hall said
Cool concept tho.