Eves little whirlwind

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