Turn your lace knitting on its side for a unique hat that is easy to knit and fun to wear. The lace looks fancy but just uses basic stitches. You knit a flat lace piece, turn that flat knitting into a tube, add some ribbing and a crown, and you’re good to go!

Finished Measurements
Note: This pattern includes 4 sizes, which will be referred to in the following order and which fit the following head circumferences at the brim: 18½ (20½, 22, 24)“ / 47 (52, 56, 61) cm. We recommend circling the size you are making throughout the pattern before starting.

Hat Height: 10” / 25.5 cm

Materials

• Valley Yarns, Haydenville DK (60% superwash merino / 40% acrylic microfiber; 136 yds / 125 m to 1.75 oz / 50 g): 2 balls #19 Light Pink

• US #6 (4.0 mm) needles; adjust needle size to achieve gauge

• US #5 (3.75 mm) 16” circular needles and dpns

• Stitch marker

• Tapestry needle

Gauge 18 sts and 26 rows = 4” / 10 cm in blocked lace pattern

Orsina Hat by Corrina Ferguson of Craftstar Studios
Photographed by Kitty Wilkin in Brewer, Maine.