Every woman is someone’s daughter. This hat was designed to crown all daughters, daughters in law, surrogate daughters, the daughters of all those dear to you and all those women who were born or became daughters. Pair a beautiful jewel of a multicolured skein with a plainer yarn for maximum effect.

From the lovely braided two-colour cast on to the beautiful pattern on the crown this is a thing of gorgeousness.

The pattern is also available as part of The hat family ebook, a collection of hats for the whole family (see link at top of page).

This hat is also available as a DK version with matching mittens

Sizes
Choose a size approx 5 cm (2 in) less than your actual head size for a snug fit. The length of the finished hat is included in the pattern - I also recommend a quick measure of how deep you like your hat - extra ribbing or pattern repeats can be added for a longer hat or if your row gauge is shorter than that given.

Finished circumference
4 years- adult small 46cm/18in
Adult M 49cm/19¼in
Adult L 56cm/22in

Yarn choices
You will need two fingering weight/4 ply yarns in with good colour contrast. To get a similar look use one plain yarn and one self-striping or variegated. For my plain yarn I used Jamieson’s shetland spindrift , a lovely wool yarn in ivory-white. My coloured yarn was a tonal varigated handyed peruvian wool yarn by artisan producer Art and Yarn. This is also very smart worked in two plain contrasting colours. Wool or acrylic yarns will work fine here.

Construction and skills
This looks more complicated than it is. The ribbing is stranded knitting, but the rest of the colourwork is mosaic, done one yarn per row with the stitches in the second colour simply slipped. The cables are done without a cable needle too (full instructions provided), so it’s a great travel knit.

If you are new to stranded knitting make sure to carry your floats nice and loosely along the back of the work or you may cause tight ribbing that may curl. Resist the temptation to go up a needle size for the cast on; this will only make any tendancy to curl worse.

Pattern contains
Both written and charted instructions. Links to tutorials for the cast on, ribbing etc.