Roil Hat

CONSTRUCTION

• The hat is worked circularly from the bottom up, beginning with a ribbed brim worked on a needle 3-4 sizes smaller than your main needle. Going down several needle sizes this way improves the fit of this hat and creates a sturdy ribbed brim, from which the cables will emerge in an unbroken pattern.
• After completion of the ribbed brim, you will switch to main needle and work an increase round. The increased number of stitches is necessary to provide the proper ease for the cable patterning within the body of the hat.
• After completion of the unshaped portion of the hat body, crown shaping is worked to close the top of the hat. The decreases have been designed to integrate invisibly into the cable pattern, maintaining an unbroken look throughout the entire project.

FINISHED DIMENSIONS

• 20½"/52 cm circumference, unstretched
• 8¼"/21 cm length
• To fit head sizes: 20-23”/51-58.5 cm

GAUGE

• 28 stitches & 37 rounds per 4”/10 cm in Cable Pattern with main needle, after blocking

Please note: the stitch patterns used for this accessory may be worked from written or charted instructions.

YARN

225 yards/205 meters of any Brooklyn Tweed worsted weight yarn or any Brooklyn Tweed DK weight yarn

• Sample 1 photographed in Arbor color Cobbler.
• Sample 2 photographed in Shelter color Almanac.
• Sample 3 photographed in Shelter color Pollen.
• Sample 4 photographed in Re•Ply Rambouillet color Root.

NEEDLES

Main needles

• Suggested Size: US 6 (4 mm)
• One 16” (40cm) circular needle
• One set of double-pointed needles (DPNs)

Ribbing needle

• Suggested size US 3 (3.25 mm)
• Three or four sizes smaller than main needle
• One 16” (40cm) circular needle

Tutorials for all special techniques listed below are included in the pattern:

• Cable Knitting 101
• Blocking 101