On Piste Hat

$6.00

Celebrate the first days of well-groomed ski runs and sipping cocoa by the fire with twisted-stitch cables. This pattern is designed for fingering weight yarn, held double to create a cozy, ultra-squishy hat, perfect for the season.

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Yarn

Depending on the size you are making, you’ll need one to two (1 to 2) approx. 100 g skeins of fingering weight yarn, 400 yards each and one (1) mini skein of fingering weight yarn of approx. 20 g / 80 yds.

Yarn is held double with itself or another, low-contrast fingering weight yarn throughout to create a worsted weight gauge.

Sample shown in Coast to Coast Yarn Company
Potato Souper Sock Set with Leek Mini. 80% Superwash Merino / 20% Nylon Fingering Weight yarn - 2 ply
400 yards / 100 grams * 92 yards / 20 grams

Needles & Notions

DK or Worsted weight scrap yarn’
Smaller needle/gauge needle - US 4/3.5 mm OR needle size needed to obtain gauge 16” Circular or DPNs
Larger needles - US 6/4.0 mm OR needle size 2 sizes higher than that which you obtained gauge
Two Cable needles
Tapestry needle
Two types of stitch markers. 5, 6, 7 (8, 9, 10) stitch markers for marking repeats. One beginning of round stitch marker

Gauge

32 sts x 30 rows over 4” x 4” in unblocked, unstretched 1x1 twisted ribbing, knit in the round, on US 4/3.5 mm

28 sts x 28 rows over 4” x 4” in unblocked cable pattern, knit in the round, on US 6/4.0 mm

Sizes

Baby, Toddler, Child, (Teen/Adult, Adult L, Adult XL) sized to fit head circumferences 14”-16”, 16”-18”, 18”-20”, (20”-22”, 22”-24”, 24”-26”).

Approximate Yardage

MC: 143, 188, 232 (308, 372, 434)
CC: 40, 47, 53 (60, 67, 73)