This slouchy beanie begins with a tubular cast on followed by ribbing which flows into seed stitch fabric. Choose one color of worsted or aran weight yarn and add an optional contrast color edge for the brim. You can make this hat as slouchy as you like. Solid and semi-solid colorways will show off the textures best.

Finished Measurements
22” / 56cm circumference. The length is customizable. Hat shown on a 22.5” / 57cm head circumference.

Yarn
Worsted or Aran weight

Yardage
160yds / 146m total
A small amount of yarn can be used for a contrasting edge.

Shown in
Qing Fibre Merino Aran
Colorway - Hero

Two strands of fingering weight yarn held together from
Garn Stories Merino in the Pesto colorway was used for a
contrast edge.

Needles
Two pairs US 7 / 4.5mm circular in 40” / 100cm length or size needed to obtain gauge.

Magic loop method is used for knitting in the rnd.

Notions
1 stitch marker, tapestry needle, scrap yarn

Gauge
20 sts = 4” / 10cm in seed stitch
The fabric is meant to be crisp and dense.

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