Turn a Square

• Product description

  This striped beanie is great for using up leftover yarn scraps from larger projects. Experiment with different colors – using both solid and self-striping yarns – to create unique, one-of-a-kind hats for your friends and family. The hat’s crown is shaped with four “compass point” decrease lines, which cause the circular stripes of the hat body to take on a square shape. It’s a fun, quick knit that is great for last minute gifts, or whipping up a quick hat for yourself when the temperatures begin to drop.

  Designer: Jared Flood

  Collection: BT Classics

   

• Pattern materials

  YARDAGE

  Two colors of worsted weight wool yarn (recommended: one solid color and one self-striping color) in the following amounts:

  • Main Color (MC): 95 yards in a solid color
  • Stripe Color (SC): 60 yards in a self-striping color

  
  

  SUGGESTED YARN


  • 1 skein MC and 1 skein SC of  Brooklyn Tweed Shelter (100 % US Targhee-Columbia Wool; 140 yards/50g)
  • Photographed with yarns Cascade 220 (MC) & Noro Silk Garden (SC)

  
  

  
  

• Pattern specs

  GAUGE

  • 20 stitches & 30 rounds = 4″ in circular stockinette stitch

  
  

  Measurement taken from relaxed fabric after wet-blocking.

  
  

  NEEDLES

  Needle A:

  • One 16″ circular and one set of DPNs in size needed to obtain gauge
  • Suggested Size: 4½ mm (US 7)

  
  

  Hat may be worked using only a 32″ circular needle, if using the Magic Loop technique

  
  

  Needle B:

  • One 16″ circular (or 32″ circular for Magic Loop) two sizes smaller than Needle A
  • Suggested Size: 3¾ mm (US 5)

  
  

  Needle C (for working Tubular Cast On only):

  • One 16” circular three sizes smaller than Needle A
  • Suggested Size: 3½ mm (US 4)

  
  

  FINISHED DIMENSIONS

  • 20½” circumference at widest point (unstretched) & 8″ height measured from center-top of crown to base of ribbing

  
  

  SIZES

  • To fit average adult head sizes 20-23.5″

  
  

• Pattern Updates

  10 January 2013: (Version 3.1): Page 5, under Rearrange Stitches for 2×2 Ribbing, fixed a typo. It now reads “…repeat from * until 1 stitch remains, slip final stitch toR needle…” Also Page 5, a missing needle change was added to read “You have now completed your Tubular Cast On and will begin working your regular 2×2 rib with needle B.” 11 January 2013: (Version 3.2): On the schematic (Page 3), the body of the hat measurement has been corrected to 4″ high through the striping sequence. 18 December 2013: (Version 3.3): Added a missing asterisk on page 4: “Row 1 (Increase Row; RS): *Knit 1, . . .” 30 December 2013: (Versions 3.4): On the previous update, the schematic reverted to an earlier version (showing the body of the hat measurement 5″ instead of 4″) when exported. The correct measurement is 4″ (as in Version 3.2).

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