Clun Forest Set: Hat by Carol Huebscher Rhoades

Clun Forest Set: Hat

Knitting
February 2009
Clun Forest fleece
Bombyx brick wool/silk blend
Worsted (9 wpi) ?
4 stitches and 7 rows = 1 inch
in Stockinette stitch
US 8 - 5.0 mm
7.0 mm
US 4 - 3.5 mm
3.5 mm (E)
130 - 300 yards (119 - 274 m)
Womens medium; cap 21" circumference, 8-1/2 inches from cast on to bind off.
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Coordinating Mittens

Pattern-page 78. This pattern includes a hat and mittens using handspun yarn. The hat is knit with worsted weight, 130 yards and the mittens with sport weight, 140 yards. Both yarns were spun from 4 oz. Clun Forest fiber combined with 0.4 oz. of Heather bombyx brick from Chasing Rainbow Dyeworks (90% wool/10% bombyx silk.

Size 8 and 7 needles are for the hat and size 4 needles are for the mittens. The size E crochet hook is for the provisional cast-on.

Mitten gauge is 5 stitches and 9 rows to 1 inch in stockinette.