This hat was designed to be an ideal first stranded knitting project. It is meant to cover all of the basic skills that ones needs to do stranded knitting on a small, rewarding project that slowly builds in difficulty. Pattern includes a page of notes for successful stranded knitting.

The Primero Hat never uses more than two colors in the same row and a single color is used for no more than 5 consecutive stitches through most of the color work. A wool or wool blend yarn is recommended for maximum “forgiveness” and memory, especially for a knitter new to stranded knitting.

Stranded knitting is represented in the color knitting chart.

Skills:
This pattern requires the knitter to work knit, purl, and decrease stitches in the round for the basic hat shape. This pattern does not recommend a particular method for knitting in the round.

Size:
Hat is sized from 12” to 22” in 2” increments. Measurements for each size assume 1-2” of negative ease for a snug-fitting and warm hat.

Yarn Substitutions:
Cascade 220, Dream in Color Classy, Madelinetosh Vintage or your favorite worsted weight wool or wool-blend yarn. Yardage listed is based on the entire skein. In practice, the hat does not use an entire skein of any of the colors.

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