Temperance Hat by Simone Kereit

Temperance Hat

Knitting
September 2017
DK (11 wpi) ?
22 stitches and 28 rows = 4 inches
in stockinette stitch
US 5 - 3.75 mm
230 - 265 yards (210 - 242 m)
17½ (19½, 22)” / 44.5 (49.5, 56) cm circumference 9”/ 23 cm high
English
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This hat (which pairs with the Temperance Cowl and if you put both in your cart now, you save $3!) with jewel tone accents uses a mixture of simple slip stitches and delayed decreases.
Inspired by the duality as well as connection between seemingly opposites, the patterns reflect earthbound trees and airborne birds, as symbols for all the myriads of things, separate, but undefined or insignificant without the other.
The Maiden and The Crone, The Queen and the Warrior, Earth and Sky, trees and birds in flight, passive and active, young and wise; bound to the other by their mirror reflection of their opposite.

Yarn
Dragonfly Fibers Traveller (100% Supewash Merino;
280 yards / 256 m per 4 oz / 114g skein)
1 skein in Silver Fox (mc)
and
set of 4 1oz skeins in
The Maiden (cc1), The Warrior (cc2), The Crone ( cc3)
and The Queen (cc4)
or
DK weight yarn, about 160 yds / 146 m of mc and 40 yds / 37 m of cc1 and about 20 yds / 18 m each of cc2, cc3 and cc4

You will be able to make both the hat and the cowl from one skein on mc and one of the 4 pc 1oz sets

Needles
US 5 (3.75 mm) 16”/ 40 cm circular needle and/
or DPNs for hat

Gauge
22 st and 32 rows = 4” / 10 cm in stockinette st

Finished Size
17½ (19½, 22)” / 44.5 (49.5, 56) cm circumference
9”/ 23 cm high

Notions
Tapestry Needle