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).

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This is a companion to Incidence (the brioche hat in the picture at the bottom of this page).

This is the knitting equivalent of opposite day. Wait, that takes a little explanation.

So, earlier this year I fell hard for brioche. I was (and remain) hideously smitten. Had a hard time knitting anything else. But, I know not everyone shares my current obsession. Which I suppose is fine…probably (but really, have you tried brioche? It’s keen…).

But, as I was playing with brioche, I realized that brioche is basically just 1x1 ribbing with some peculiar yarn overs thrown in there. And that means that a lot of the stuff you can do with brioche, you can do a version of with just 1x1 ribbing.

So, when I got done with Incidence, I figured I’d try and do a version in ribbing instead of in brioche. But I wanted to really run with the whole opposites thing. So for this one I made it super thick and cozy (instead of light and wispy), and I gave it a delightfully deep folded brim (instead of just diving right into the pattern with no brim at all). The result is a hat that is somehow the total opposite of the first hat…but one that I love just as much!

The hat is written in three sizes (castons of 80, 96, 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!

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 18.5 and 24.5 inches (with lots of points in between).

I made mine with a strand of dk yarn and a strand of laceweight mohair held together, because I wanted that fuzzy, fluffy, halo that mohair gives you. Working with the second strand of yarn is totally optional though, you can absolutely just use one if you prefer.

It took me about 200 yards of each yarn to make a hat with a deep folded brim for a large adult head. You can likely make any size with 250 yards (quite possibly less if you’re not doing a folded brim or if the head your knitting for isn’t quite as big as mine).