Fun with handpainted yarn!

I'm working on the Lake Park Hat by Marnie Maclean with the rest of that Hand Maiden Silk Cashmere and am just *loving* the way the handpainted yarn moves both horizontally and vertically in the slipped stitch pattern. Not only do the colors dance on the surface of the finished fabric but in knitting it you get to play with the colors as the slipped stitches pull different colors from previous rows:



I'm not loving the way the colors are pooling but it's improving on this second repeat, so I have hopes that the finished product will still be as attractive as the yarn.