Fourth and final hat for the Great Souper Bowl Raffle 2025

The pattern notes:
65 million years of incredible geologic forces and the power of erosion have sculpted a landscape in Utah that seems impossible. Over 2000 stone arches spanning distances up to 300 feet stand among pillars, fins, pinnacles, and balancing rocks. The contrast of bright green trees and shrubs against red orange rock and blue skies have entranced hikers and campers for generations, bringing a feeling of awe and wonder not easily forgotten.

Featuring a color as warm as the sunsets that grace the landscape, this beanie uses cable stitches to create a double arch embossed against a subtly textured backdrop of rows of knits and purls. Blue sky peeks through arches in the distance.

The chart for this pattern is on the fussy side. Texture stitches get rather lost with dark yarn so I’m not sure the odd knitting stitches tossed among all the reverse stockinette stitches are worth it. The cables nicely accomplish the arch shaping so I think the other texture sts aren’t all that necessary, at least with my chosen colorway. I worked them anyway. Maybe with blocking I will notice a difference.

Clever motif nonetheless.

This hat turned out small -- probably due to my yarn, a brown, light fingering, held double. The blue was also fingering but a heavier weight; doubled it too.