Skill Level:
Advanced Intermediate
| Materials: | |
| Needles: | 16" #8 circular needle (optional) |
| set of 4 #8 double pointed needles | |
| Yarn: | 1 skein worsted weight, chocolate brown |
| 1 skein worsted weight, camel | |
| 1 place marker | |
Gauge:
4.5 stitches per inch
6 rows per inch
Stitch Explanation:
K—knit
P—purl
st(s)—stitch(es)
St st—stockinette stitch
arnd—around
rnd—round
K2tog—knit two together
Pattern:
With 16" circular needle or double pointed needles, cast on 128 sts in chocolate. Join, taking care not to twist. Work in K1, P1 rib for 3 inches (about 18 rnds). Pick up the camel yarn and, in St st, begin chart.
This is the chart I designed for the hat.
This is the legend to the chart.
This is the chart in color. I left the symbols in place in case the colors on your monitor or printer are not the same as mine.
Work till hat measures 8" and begin decreases.
Decreases:
Note: In order to maintain the checked pattern, you will work double decreases, that way you will lose one dark and one light stitch at the same time. To decrease, K2tog twice.
Work decrease rounds as follows:
Rnd 1: (K12, K2 tog twice) around—112 sts.
Rnd 2 and all even rnds: Work even around.
Rnd 3: (K10, K2 tog twice) around—96 sts.
Rnd 5: (K8, K2 tog twice) around—80 sts.
Rnd 7: (K6, K2 tog twice) around—64 sts.
Rnd 9: (K4, K2 tog twice) around—48 sts.
Rnd 11: (K2, K2tog twice) around—32 sts.
Rnd 13: (K2tog) around—16 sts.
Rnd 15: (K2tog) around—8 sts.
Cut off long end of yarn and thread it through remaining 8 sts and pull tight. Block; weave in all ends.