Bluebell forest hat by Ruth Dorrington

Bluebell forest hat

Knitting
Fingering (14 wpi) ?
30 stitches and 34 rows = 4 inches
in Fairisle pattern 3.25mm needles
US 2½ - 3.0 mm
US 3 - 3.25 mm
164 - 219 yards (150 - 200 m)
Adult
English
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Nothing is so breathtaking as a carpet of bluebells in the Spring. My hat doesn’t do them justice, but I have tried to capture the dappled sunlight on fresh foliage with the variegated green and then the way the flowers recede from individual bells in the foreground to an expanse of blue in the distance.
The hat is knitted in the round with a simple rib bland and then the colourwork section. It can be blocked into a tam/beret as in the pictures, or left as a slouchy beanie.