Three styles of cables interact to create an exciting texture for a stretchy beanie.

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Skills Used
Basic knitting skills: cast on, knit, purl

Knitting in the round and small circumference knitting in the round using circular needles and magic loop or DPNs

Cables (C6B and C6F with written instructions in the pattern)

Decreasing (k2tog, p2tog, sk2p)

Skill Level
Intermediate

Finished Size
Adult: 18.5” (47 cm) circumference, 9” (23 cm) height/7” (19 cm) height with brim folded up.

Materials
Quaere Fibre Worsted Weight (100% superwash Merino wool, 5.25 oz/150 g, 327 yd/299 m) – 1 skein in Sun Kissed, or approximately 235 yd (215 m) in any medium weight yarn.

US Size 8/5 mm 40” (100 cm) knitting needles (or set of DPNs, for small circumference knitting in the round), or any size needed to obtain gauge.

US Size 6/4 mm circular knitting needles for ribbing, or any size needed to obtain gauge.

3 locking stitch markers.

Cable needle.

Yarn needle.

Gauge
26 sts x 36 rows in pattern = 4” (10 cm) with larger needles in (C6B, p2) pattern, flat but unblocked. For best fit, always check your gauge. For this pattern, it is most important to get stitch gauge. Row gauge is not critical for this pattern.