A hand-knit, ribbed, slouch beanie worked from the cuff-up featuring a cable motif!

The Story
My Mum wanted a slouchy hat for her 60th birthday - a shock to me since I can hardly remember her ever wearing a hat in my lifetime. But what the birthday girl wants, the birthday girl gets!

Materials

• Green Mountain Spinnery Weekend Wool (2-ply worsted weight; 100% American wool; 140 yds/128 m per skein), 2 skeins: ‘Pine Warbler 7798’
• US 6 (4 mm) 16” / 40 cm circular needle
• US 8 (5 mm) 16” / 40 cm circular needle AND set of DPNs
• Stitch marker
• Cable needle
• Row counter (optional)
• Tapestry needle

Notes

• This hat is worked in the round from the brim up beginning with the Small needle for the Brim, changing to the Large needle for the Body of the hat.
• Adjust needle size as necessary to match gauge. The Small needle should be 2 needle sizes smaller than the Large needle when gauge is met.
• Written instructions are provided for the entirety of the hat.
• When the circumference of the hat becomes too small for the circular needle during the Crown Shaping, change to DPNs to finish the hat.
• When the hat is worn as designed, the beginning of round will be above the left ear rather than behind the head.
• German Twisted Cast On Tutorial: http://tinyurl.com/j64yl3d

IF YOU WISH TO MAKE A MARLED VERSION AS SHOWN IN THE PHOTOS:

• You can follow the pattern as written and get the same gauge if you hold a heavy DK yarn or a worsted yarn together with a fingering weight yarn.

• The yarn modeled here is House Worsted in “Aloe” and single ply fingering in “Nordic” from House of A La Mode Fiber Goods.