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Owling is a unisex cabled hat in one size with two brim options -- single and double-folded.

I’m lucky enough to live in a place surrounded by woods. In the heart of the winter, hours before dawn, if I’m very lucky, I’ll go outside to start my car and hear two owls calling to each other – a hoot, a pause, and a reply. The plump cables of Owling were designed to surround you in cozy comfort on those frigid, wintry early mornings.

Instructions are written and charted.

Finished Sizes
One Size to fit head circumferences 18 – 20¾” / 45 – 53cm

Finished Measurements
Circumference: 17” / 43.5cm, unstretched
Height: 8½” / 21.5cm

Modeled with approximately 2” / 5cm of negative ease.

Yarn
Sample 1 - double-brim
Modern Daily Knitting Atlas
2 skeins
100% Rambouillet wool
145 yds / 132m per 50g

Shown in color Pebble (ivory)

Sample 2 - single-brim
Quince & Co. Lark
2 skeins
100% American wool
134 yds / 123m

Shown in color Twig (brown)

Samples used approximately 150 yds / 137m of DK weight yarn for the single-brimmed version or 205 / 188m of DK weight yarn for the double-brimmed version, plus 3 – 8 yds / 3 – 7.5m for optional pompom.

Needles
• US 6 / 4mm needles* for ribbing
• US 7 / 4.5mm needles* for body of hat

* Any method of working in the round (double-pointed needles, two circulars, a smaller circular, or a long circular for magic loop) may be used. If using a smaller circular needle, you may need double-pointed needles to shape the crown.

Gauge
24.5 sts and 27.5 rnds = 4 / 10cm in cable pattern, blocked

Notions
stitch markers (1)
cable needle
tapestry needle

Skills Used
reading charts (optional)
knitting in the round
cables
increasing
decreasing

The pattern has been tested and professionally tech-edited.