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 Likewise (the mitts in the pictures at the bottom of this page).

I should have a story for you. I really should! I should tell you something about a lousy day being made better by spending some time outside somewhere green and leafy, or about this pattern symbolizing growth and rebirth, or about overcoming some sort of obstacle while I knit it.

And I could do that! If you really really really needed me to, I could channel my inner ninth grader with an english essay due tomorrow and come up with something moderately convincing. Probably. If you really pushed the issue.

But the thing is, I knit this because it was pretty and it was easy and it made me happy. And this spring, when I was knitting this, I sort of needed something that was pretty and easy and made me happy.

So now, on the off chance that one or two of you might need the same things from your knitting right about now, here it is. I hope that it’s exactly what you need now the same way it was exactly what I needed then!

And feel free to work on your own moving story of growth and change and heartbreak and obstacles overcome and whatever else you’d like. Those can totally be fun under the right circumstances! But sometimes…sometimes I just make something because Iike how it looks!

The hat is written in six sizes (castons of 88, 96, 104, 112, 120, or 128 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!

I recommend working at something around 4.5, 5, 5.5, 6, or 6.5 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 19 and 25.5 inches (with lots of points in between).