Pipa is a simple beanie knit with sport weight non-superwash wool and silk-mohair lace yarn held together to achieve a warm, soft and squishy texture. The rim has double construction with stockinette stitch on the inside and a sort of rick-rack-ish ribbing for extra interest on the outside. The rick-rack texture continues all the way up to the top. Use similar colors, if you want to keep the design classic and chic, or use wild, contrasting colors for added sass. Adorn with a pompom for fun. Or don’t. It’s up to you!
Pipa is a Finnish slang word for “pipo”; a knitted hat, a beanie.

Size:
One size, fits most. I highly recommend to knit a swatch to obtain the right gauge. If you want to make changes or adjust the size, please do your math carefully. If you wish to make the hat smaller or bigger, you can, but make sure that you can divide the number of your stitches by nine to be able to follow the pattern repeats at the decreases.

Yarn:
70 grams of sport weight, non-superwash wool yarn
20 grams of lace weight kid mohair and silk blend
You can use similar or contrasting colors, depending on the effect you want to achieve.

Needles and notions:
-Size 8 / 5.0mm double pointed needles, or cables if you like to magic-loop it.
-a stitch marker
-darning needle

Gauge:
In stockinette 20x28 sts / 10x10cm

Abbreviations:
co cast on
k knit
p purl
pm place marker
sm slip marker from left needle to the right needle
s slip stitch from left needle to the right as if to purl
kfb knit through the front loop and then through the back loop of the stitch; creates one extra stitch
psso2 pass the slipped stitch over two stitches (to the left); decreases one stitch
k2tog knit two together; decreases one stitch
k2togtbl knit two together through the back loop; decreases one stitch