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Here’s a hat for everyone in your world! Featuring sizing options from child to adult, this “plus-sign” design is a great hat for the beginner colorwork knitter. It’s the perfect hat for your “plus one” date and for yourself too! The simple colorwork chart is mindless enough to take on the go. If you dont feel like shaping, cut it short and make the headband version! It’s a perfect piece for stash odds and ends or two favorite skeins you found at your local yarn shop. I know this is one you will return to again and again!
FINISHED MEASUREMENTS
Approx 15.25 (16.5, 17.5, 18.5, 19.5)" / 38 (46, 41, 44, 46, 45) cm circumference x 6.5 (7, 8.5, 9, 10.5)” / 16 (17.5, 21, 22.5, 26) cm tall
YARN
Sample 1 (Child M/Adult S—shown on cover and back page):
• MC: Blue Sky Fibers Woolstock (100% Fine Highland Wool; 123 yd / 112 m per 50g skein); in color no 1306: Wild Thyme, 1 skein
• CC: Spincycle Dream State (100% Superwashed American Wool; 150 yd / 137 m per 50g skein); in color Ewenicorn, 1 skein
Sample 2 (Adult M—shown on page 2):
• MC: La Bien Aimee Merino DK (100% Superwash Merino; 252 yd/ 230 m per 115g); in color Winterfell, 1 skein
• CC: La Bien Aimee Merino DK (100% Superwash Merino; 252 yd/ 230 m per 115g); in color Dusk, 1 skein
OR DK/Light Worsted Weight Yarn in the following amounts:
• MC: 65 (75, 95, 115, 140) yd / 59 (68, 86, 105, 127) m
• CC: 35 (45, 55, 65, 85) yd / 32 (41, 50, 59, 77) m
FOR HEADBAND (shown on back page)
• MC: Farmers Daughter Fibers Pikshun, (100% Rambouillet wool; 255 yd / 232 m per 100 g), 1 skein; in color Ranc Brock
• CC: Spincycle Dream State (100% Super- washed American Wool; 150 yd / 137 m per 50g skein); in color Mississippi Marsala, 1 skein
OR 45 yards of each MC & CC in DK/Light Worsted Weight Yarn.
GAUGE
22 sts and 28 rows to 4" in charted colorwork, blocked, worked in the round on Gauge Needle
NEEDLES
Needles listed are suggested. Always take time to swatch.
• Gauge Needle: Size US 6 (4.0 mm) 16” / 40 cm or OR 32” / 81 cm circular (for magic loop) and DPNs
• Smaller Needle: Size US 4 (3.5 mm) 16” / 40 cm or OR 32” / 81 cm circular (for magic loop) — or one size smaller than gauge needle
TOOLS
Stitch marker and tapestry needle
PATTERN NOTES
• Hat is worked in the round, from the bottom up.
• Directions for Hat OR Headband are provided.
• Any time you are changing colors between rounds, if you are carrying them up, be sure to pick the new color up from behind the old color, crossing the two colors over one another to prevent any holes.
• During the colorwork sections you are free to carry yarns up loosely or cut leaving a 6” tail between color changes.
• Body of hat uses charted colorwork. For the crown shaping both charts and written directions are provided. decrease sections, you may follow the chart OR written directions.
