in hard times you get to know which of your friends are actually your friends and which are not. One of my friends stood out during the last weeks and I dediced I wanted to thank her somehow. It came very handy that she called for a new hat as the nights are already very very cold here and she didn’t want to have cold ears after her sport sessions.
I almost yelled at her to let me make this hat. She gave me yarn and I started. I browsed through some of her pins and faves on ravelry and started to have a good idea of the kind of hats she liked.
I started and came up with this pattern.
I’m calling it :
Eves little whirlwind
(as this is her second name and just the way she is, a little whirlwind :D)
yarn and needles: (gauge)
Malabrigo Rios – 4.5mm – gauge 20-22 sts per 10cm/4″ (you’ll have 120 sts in the end, find a gauge that will fit your head circumference nicely)
I’ve never knitted with malabrigo yarns before, they are gorge! I liked knitting with them (they tink quite nice as well, which comes handy when you create a new design and undo your work a few times) and I liked wearing it too. (need to admit that I wore the hat to work two days in a row last week, it’s warm and doesn’t itch/scratch on bare skin) really lovely (in fact so lovely I ordered some for me as well!)
abbreviations:
CO – cast on
k – knit
p – purl
m1 – make 1 (from the strand between two sts)
m1p – make 1 by purling through the back loop (from strand between two sts)
swyb – slip with yarn in back, don’t twist the stitch, and replace your marker
p2tog – purl 2 sts together
sl – slip, without twisting the stitch
pattern:
1 – Judys Magic Cast on for small circles: CO 5
Leave your tail long enough to knit both next rounds with end and working yarn held together, this will make increases a little more easy and you’ll also have the end woven in with this step
2 – (with end and working yarn together) knit 5
as you’ve held two strands together you’ll technically have 10 loops now
3 – (with end and working yarn together) knit 10
as you’ve held two strands together you’ll technically have 20 loops
4 – knit 20 ( I like to hold the end and working yarn together here as well, only for the first 3 or 4 sts, this will secure the end – take care to treat these “double-loop-stitches” as only 1 stitch in the next round
5 – (k4, m1p) x5 — (25)
6 – (k2, m1, k2, p1) x5 — (30)
7 – (k5, p1, m1p) x5 — (35)
8 – swyb – (k2, m1, k3, p2) x5 — (40
9 – (k6, p1, m1p, p1) x5 — (45)
10 – (k3, m1p, k3, p3) x5 — (50)
11 – swyb – (k3, p1, k3, p2, m1p, p1) x5 — (55)
12 – (k3, p1, m1p, k3, p4) x5 — (60)
13 – swyb – (k3, p1, m1, p1, k3, p4) x5 — (65)
14 – (k3, p1, k1, p1, k3, p3, m1p, p1) x5 — (70)
15 – swyb – (k3, p1, k1, m1, p1, k3, p5) x5 — (75)
16 – (k3, p1, k2, p1, k3, p4, m1p, p1) x5 — (80)
17 – swyb – (k3, p1, k1, m1, k1, p1, k3, p6) x5 — (85)
18 – ((k3, p1) x3, p4, m1p, p1) x5 — (90)
19 – swyb – ((k3, p1) x3, p5, m1p, p1) x5 — (95)
20 – ((k3, p1) x3, p6, m1p, p1) x5 — (100)
21 – swyb – ((k3, p1) x3, p7, m1p, p1) x5 — (105)
22 – ((k3, p1) x3, p8, m1p, p1) x5 — (110)
23 – swyb – ((k3, p1) x3, p9, m1p, p1) x5 — (115)
24 – ((k3, p1) x3, p10, m1p, p1) x5 — (120)
* 1 – swyb – ((k3, p1) x3, p13) x5 — (120)
2 – ((k3, p1) x3, p13) x5 — (120)* repeat these two rows for about 8 cm (3inches)
time to build up the last third: (the stitch count will stay at 120 for the rest of the hat)
1 – swyb – (k1, m1, k2, p1, (k3, p1) x2, p2tog, p10) x5
2 – (k4, p1, k3, p1, k3, p1, p12) x5
3 – swyb – (k4, p1, k3, p1, k3, p1, p12) x5
4 & 6 – repeat row 2
5 – repeat row 3
7 – swyb – (k2, m1, k2, p1, (k3, p1) x2, p2tog, p9) x5
8 – (k5, p1, k3, p1, k3, p11) x5
9 – swyb – (k5, p1, k3, p1, k3, p11) x5
10 – (k5, p1, k3, p1, k3, p11) x5
11 – swyb – (k3, m1, k2, p1, k1, m1, k2, p1, k3, p1, p2tog, p1, p2tog, p5) x5
12 – (k6, p1, k4, p1, k3, p9) x5
13 – swyb – (k4, m1, k2, p1, k4, p1, k3, p1, p2tog, p6) x5
14 – (k7, p1, k4, p1, k3, p8) x5
15 – swyb – (k5, m1, k2, p1, k2, m1, k2, p1, k3, p1, p2tog, p1, p2tog, p2) x5
16 – (k8, p1, k5, p1, k3, p6)
17 – swyb – (k6, m1, k2, p1, k5, p1, k3, p1, p2tog, p3) x5
18 – (k9, p1, k5, p1, k3, p5)
19 – swyb – (k7, m1, k2, p1, k3, m1, k2, p1, k3, p2tog, p1, p2tog) x5
20 – (k10, p1, k6, p1, k3, p3) x5
21 – swyb – (k10, p1, k6, p1, k3, p3) x5
22 – (k2, (p1, k3) x3, m1p, k3, p1, k2, ssk, p1, k1) x5
with round 22 the ribbing is established. Now you can go on in a *k2, (p1, k3), p1, k1* ribbing until you think it’s time to bind off
Then choose your favorite bind off method and do it 😀
(I like the italian bind off for such projects)
I hope you’ll like this hat and have fun with it.
In case you have any questions please just leave a message here.
hugs, Diana
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