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This is a perfect unisex classic ribbed hat with a couple of tricks up its sleeve. I wanted to create a good-fitting hat that never gets boring to knit.
The Cava beanie can be knit either bottom up or top down, and it includes instructions to be knit in 3 different weights of yarn: fingering-weight, sport-weight (fingering held with a strand of mohair), and DK (fingering held double), and three sizes.

A perfect stash buster: grab a mini skein, pretty fingering leftovers, and whatever mohair or alpaca is left in your yarn cabinet. It is going to look pretty no matter what! Relaxing, gorgeous, and so addictive to knit, you will not be able to resist casting on one after another.

Yarn
—Option 1: Fingering yarn + silk mohair (GREY SAMPLE)
Twist Nouveau by La Bien Aimée (100% Non-superwash Merino) 400 m / 100 g OR Merino Sport by La Bien Aimée (100% superwash Merino) 325 m / 100 g
Held together with
Soyeux by La Bien Aimée (64% Kid Mohair, 36% Silk), 420m for 50g.
Yardage: approximately 190 (220, 230) m of each.

—Option 2: Fingering yarn
Twist Nouveau by La Bien Aimée (100% % merino) 108 m / 50 g.
Yardage: approximately 205 (230, 240) m.

—Option 3: Fingering yarn held double (VIOLET SAMPLE)
Twist Nouveau by La Bien Aimée (100% Merino) OR Merino Sport by La Bien Aimée (100% superwash Merino) 325 m / 100 g HELD DOUBLE.
Yardage: approximately 270 (290, 320) m

Gauge and Needles
— Option 1: 24 sts and 31 rounds in 2x2 ribbing in the round on 3.25 mm circular needle, cable length 80 cm / 32” (or needle size to obtain gauge)
— Option 2: 27 sts and 34 rounds in 2x2 ribbing in the round on 3 mm circular needle (or needle size to obtain gauge).
—Option 3: 23 sts and 29 rounds in 2x2 ribbing in the round on 4 mm circular needle (or needle size to obtain gauge).
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