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woman wearing hand knit striped hat and cowl — Hi Ho Helix!

Helix knitting is a method of knitting jogless stripes in the round. It works well for single row stripes, seamless garter stitch, and blending dye lots of yarn.

This worsted weight hat or cowl begins with a jogless garter stitch band. Jogless stripes are then worked in your choice of two or three colors. These projects are great for stashbusting your leftover yarn from previous projects! I knit all of my samples with Malabrigo Rios.

I designed this set as a quick start project for a helix knitting class. We had class on Saturday, and it was fun!

The Hi Ho Helix pattern is available on Ravelry, link here.

And it’s also available on Payhip, link here.

Use code STRIPED for 15% off the pattern through June 30, 2026.

Stripe it up!

I’ve got my teacher hat on. Last week I was trying to come up with a new class or two. I’ve been thinking about colorwork, but only one strand at a time. Strandless colorwork? The easiest of which is stripes.

The easiest of which is stripes. Garter stitch or stockinette stitch, I love them both. Then we get into textured and fancy stripes. And slip stitch knitting, which are just interrupted stripes. And even brioche rib is a kind of slip stitch stripe, right?

But if you’re working in the round, you might want jogless stripes.

And you might want more than two colors. I really went down the rabbit hole with helix knitting this past week.

This striped hat has no jogs in the stripes or the garter stitch edge.

And this cowl’s three color stripes have no jogs, either. Magic!

I think these are actually two classes, one in unstranded colorwork with a touch of helix knitting, and one specifically in helix knitting. I’m teaching the helix knitting class at For Yarn’s Sake on Saturday June 20, 11:30 to 1:30. It’s not on the website yet, but should be up soon.

It’s been really strange for me to have three projects on the needles at the same time, but now I’ve finished the hat and cowl. They’ll have a pattern to go with them; it’s not quite done yet.

The third project is now the only project! This is a single skein bias triangle shawlette. The yarn is from A Chick That Knitz; it’s her Singles Fingering in From Paris with Love.