This pattern is also available in my Payhip store.

The second in my Weeds collection of tams. This pattern features a design based upon the bracts and flower/seed heads of the teasel. The teasel is a fascinating plant, very well guarded by sharp spikes along stem and leaf margins. It has a mass of tiny lavender-coloured flowers bursting through the seed head in bands, starting with the centre of the flower head and then moving in waves down to the base and up to the tip. They may be little flowers but they nevertheless provide abundant nectar for bees, ants, and hoverflies, and once finished flowering the goldfinches move in to feast on the seeds.

Instructions are given for four sizes, to fit small, medium narrow, medium wide, or large. The narrow and wide sizes refer to how full the tam part of the hat is. This tam is roomy and warm.

Small, medium narrow, medium wide, large; to fit head circumferences 54 cm (58 cm, 58 cm, 62 cm) / approx.
21 1⁄4” (23”, 23”, 24 1⁄2”) at the brim. Finished sizes at the brim, unstretched, 45 cm (49 cm, 49 cm, 52 cm) / approx.
17 3⁄4” (19 1⁄4”, 19 1⁄4”, 20 1⁄2”).

Sample shown in Jamieson’s Shetland Spindrift colours:
C1 610 Purple, 1 ball (approx. 17 g was used for medium wide).
C2 617 Lavender, 1 ball (approx. 17 g was used for medium wide).
C3 769 Willow, 1 ball (approx. 17 g was used for medium wide).