Description
The exaggerated shape of this beret, accentuated by a cinching horizontal cable brim, is reminiscent of hats depicted in medieval paintings. The designer decorated the body of the hat with a simple colorwork repeat, which is echoed on the ends of the cabled scarf. Both projects are worked in the round to ease the stranded colorwork. The tube scarf is blocked flat but has no wrong side.
Finished Size: Hat: 20″ head circumference (to fit up to 23″ head); Scarf: 5″ wide and 62″ long
Yarn: Nancy’s Knit Knacks Digit (100% wool; 130 yd [120 m]/30 g): walnut, 11 skeins; sagebrush, 3 skeins; gourse, 1 skein; magenta, 1 skein
Yarn weight: #1 – Super Fine
Gauge: 28 sts and 28 rows = 4″ with yarn doubled in Fair Isle patt on larger needle; 28 sts and 32 rows = 4″ in cable patt on larger needle
Needles: Hat: Size 4 (3.5 mm) straight needles; Size 6 (4 mm): 16″ circular (cir) needle and double-pointed needles (dpn); 30″ narrow elastic (black), optional. Scarf: Size 5 (3.75 mm): 32″ (or longer) cir needle; Size 6 (4 mm): 32″ (or longer) cir needle
Notions: Markers (m), yarn needle
Originally Published: Knitscene Fall 2008
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