Missouri Beanie by Nancy Bates

Missouri Beanie

Knitting
October 2025
Peekaboo Yarns Merino Worsted
all 3 are used in this pattern
Worsted (9 wpi) ?
9.5 stitches = 2 inches
in stockinette
US 5 - 3.75 mm
US 7 - 4.5 mm
180 - 200 yards (165 - 183 m)
One size fits an average adult head 19" - 22", after blocking
English
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If you love caves, you’ll love Missouri! With approximately 7,000 documented caves of all sizes and shapes, Missouri is often called “The Cave State”. Nature’s perfect combination of rainfall, underground aquafers, soluble rock, and millions of years has created caves with beautiful formations, waterfalls, rivers, and seemingly endless passageways. Man’s ingenuity has created exciting ways to explore many of them.

In this artistic and stylized interpretation of waterfalls and caves, three shades of blue represent water seeping through cracks in the gray bedrock. An abstract, yet classic, design.

Colors and amounts used as shown:
A. Malabrigo Rios: Bobby Blue (33 g/ 71 yd./ 65 m)
B. Stunning String Studio Legacy Worsted: Charcoal (20 g/ 40 yd./ 36 m)
C. Malabrigo Rios:: Cosmos (20 g/ 40 yd./ 36 m)
D. Peekaboo Yarns Merinio Worsted: Zion Blue (15 g/ 32yd./ 29 m)