This Pattern is Retired…but you can (probably) get it in November

I have a lot of patterns! But I also get overwhelmed if I have to deal with them all at once. So I’ve picked 12 of my favorites (the Core Collection) to keep around. Then every few months, I decide on a theme or a technique and make a handful of related patterns (the Rotating Collection) available for a little while (then they go away again).

The other patterns are retired and are not generally available. However, because I know some folks will want them, I make many of the retired patterns available for a few weeks every November. If you want me to tell you when they’re back, subscribe to the mailing list or patreon, and I’ll let you know!

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This is a companion to Entrapment and Misprision (the purple and pink hats in the pictures at the bottom of this page).

So you know slipped stitches? That super easy thing where you just slide a stitch over to the other needle without really doing anything to it? Well this hat is what happens when you decide to take that idea and see how far you can take it!

Everything here is either plain old stockinette worked in the round, or slipped stitches! Well ok, I guess you do a tiny handful of decreases at the top of the hat to finish things off…but all that lovely latticework is made with cleverly slipped stitches. This really is just a tube of stockinette with some lovely fancy bits laid on top.

It’s perfect for when you need something mellow (or you want that deeply satisfying experience of doing something that looks tricky but is really a piece of cake). And it’s an absolutely marvelous thing to do with some wild variegated yarn you can’t quite find a project for…pair it with something more mellow for the main color and watch it shine!

The hat is written in five sizes (castons of 96, 100, 104, 108, and 112 stitches), and you should feel free to adjust your gauge a bit to fine tune the fit of the hat. Just be sure that you’re working at a gauge that gives you a fabric you like with your chosen yarn (you want something dense enough that you don’t see the contrasting yarn behind your fabric).

I recommend working at something around 4.5, 5, 5.5, or 6 stitches per inch, and I’ve included a table to help you figure out what gauge you’ll want to use for your size. With that range of sizes and gauges, the hat will fit a head between 17.5 and 25.5 inches (with lots of points in between).

Oh, and just to help you plan, I used about 150 yards of the gray and 75 yards of the blue yarn to make a hat for a large adult. If you’re making a bigger or taller hat (or if you use a skinnier yarn), you might want more like 200 yards of the main color and 100 yards of the contrast yarn.