Tir na Nog Slouch Beanie

When my son was 5, we accompanied my husband on a business trip to Ireland. An Irish woman he worked with had a friend who owned the Mitchelstown Caves, one of the amazing underground cave systems found in Ireland. They are wondrous and have stalagmite and stalactite formations that take the breath away! Normally closed in December, we were given a private tour and my son loved the formation called “Tír na nÓg,” and the translation is “fountain of youth” or “land of the young”.

Slouch Beanies are “the” hats today, especially loved by the young. Simply shaped, the best ones have beautiful “drape” to them. I saw cashmere beanies in a shop recently in an array of beautiful colors. Really simple, most anyone who can knit can make a cool beanie. Cashmere tends to pill so I chose merino for my beanie and added texture and a simple one-row knitted “Vikkel Braid” as it adds so much to the look of the beanie and it’s a chance to learn a new technique that can be used in so many p