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Loft 2-ply Woolen-Spun Fingering Weight

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$18.75 / 275 yards ($0.07/yd)

Loft 2-ply Woolen-Spun Fingering Weight

Select a color Homemade Jam Camper Long Johns Wool Socks Embers Bale Hayloft Yellowstone Sap Foothills Artifact Birdbook Button Jar Iceberg Tartan Faded Quilt Flannel Almanac Old World Postcard Blanket Fort Plume Fossil Woodsmoke Nest Stormcloud Meteorite Truffle Hunt Snowbound Pumice Sweatshirt Soot Cast Iron

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$18.75 / 275 yards ($0.07/yd)

Loft 2-ply Woolen-Spun Fingering Weight

Select a color Homemade Jam Camper Long Johns Wool Socks Embers Bale Hayloft Yellowstone Sap Foothills Artifact Birdbook Button Jar Iceberg Tartan Faded Quilt Flannel Almanac Old World Postcard Blanket Fort Plume Fossil Woodsmoke Nest Stormcloud Meteorite Truffle Hunt Snowbound Pumice Sweatshirt Soot Cast Iron

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$18.75 / 275 yards ($0.07/yd)

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• Product description

  The clean shape of this classic slouchy cap is the perfect canvas for a beautiful ombre fabric. The marled gradient is formed by working with double- stranded yarn that alternates between 3 consecutive values of color. For a bold gradient effect, choose 3 colors that are equally spaced on the value scale (light, medium and dark), or for a more subtle shift choose three similar values that have subtle shifts in color.

  In our brown sample we started with the lightest value so the hat darkens towards the crown; swapping color 1 and 3 will reverse the direction of the gradient. For all its simplicity, the results are truly enchanting as well as addicting (knitters at our headquarters are hooked!)

  With three shades Loft yarn, you can knit the hat twice – reversing your gradient’s direction on your second sample – and still have three-quarters of a skein leftover in Color 2 for another project.

  Designer: Michele Wang

  Collection: Fall 2012

   

• Pattern materials

  YARDAGE

  Fingering weight wool yarn in the following approximate amounts:

  • Color 1: Approximately 77 yard
  • Color 2: Approximately 25 yards
  • Color 3: Approximately 195 yards

  
  

  YARN

  • 1 skein of Brooklyn Tweed Loft (100% American Targhee-Columbia wool; 275 yards/50g) in each of three colors

  
  

  Note: With three shades of Loft yarn, you can knit the hat twice – reversing your gradient’s direction on your second sample – and still have three-quarters of a skein leftover in Color 2 for another project.

  
  

  COLORWAYS

  • Sample 1 (browns) photographed in Fossil (Color 1), Woodsmoke (Color 2) and Barn Owl (Color 3)
  • Sample 2 (darks) photographed in Artifact (Color 1), Meteorite (Color 2) and Pumpernickel (Color 3)

  
  

• Pattern specs

  CONSTRUCTION

  • Hat is knit in the round from beginning to end and features a 1x1 Tubular Cast On.
  • Yarn is held doubled throughout; the gradient effect is created by changing which colors are being held together as you work.

  
  

  GAUGE

  • 18 stitches & 26 rows = 4″ in circular stockinette stitch and yarn held double with Gauge Needle; measurement taken from relaxed fabric after blocking

  
  

  NEEDLES

  Needle A (Gauge Needle):

  • One 16″ circular and one set of DPNs (or one long circular, if using the Magic Loop knitting method) in size needed to obtain gauge

  • Suggested Size: 4½ mm (US 7)

  
  

  Needle B:

  • One 16″ circular needle two sizes smaller than Needle A

  • Suggested Size: 3¾ mm (US 5)

  
  

  Needle C (Used for Tubular Cast On only):

  • One 16″ circular needle one size smaller than Needle B

  • Suggested Size: 3½ mm (US 4)

  
  

  FINISHED DIMENSIONS

  • 18″ brim circumference (unstretched), 24″ circumference at widest point, 10¼” height
  • To fit head sizes 20″-24″

  
  

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