This is my first project entirely planned from bag of unprocessed fibre to completed hat. It was made for my father’s seventieth birthday from an alpaca called Rosie owned by my parents.

The hat is a simple beanie with a fold over brim for added ear warmth in a broad rib 9 x 9 rib pattern. The crown was shaped with leaning decreases along the edges of the rib pattern every fourth round, finishing with a round of centred double decreases before threading the yarn through the remaining stitches. The finished unfolded hat is 26 cm long for a head circumference of approximately 56 cm.