The Titfer

Knitting
November 2012
DK (11 wpi) ?
33 stitches and 32 rows = 4 inches
in over cable pattern on 4mm nds after steaming or blocking.
US 3 - 3.25 mm
US 6 - 4.0 mm
137 - 167 yards (125 - 153 m)
approximately 45(51)cm 17¾(20)” circumference unstretched to fit average adult female (male) head.
English
Discontinued. This digital pattern is no longer available online.

Here we give you TBk’s ‘London’ hat, because as any Cockney (or, frankly, most Brits) know, a Titfer is a hat. Tit-for-tat = hat in Cockney rhyming slang.

The Titfer has classic lines and classic cables, plus the all-important ridiculously-sized pompom that is so important this Winter in the East End. No sewing involved, other than darning in ends and attaching your pompom.

3-coloured Slouch Titfer:
1 hank each of 3 colours of John Arbon Knit By Numbers, shown in:
KBN02, Col. 1 (charcoal)
KBN11, Col. 2 (donkey brown)
KBN04, Col. 3 (school grey)

Approx. amounts used:
Col. 1 (charcoal) 18(20)g, 45(50)m / 50(55)yds.
Col. 2 (donkey brown) 30(33)g, 75(83)m / 82 (91)yds.
Col. 3 (school grey) 18(20)g, 45(50)m / 50(55)yds.

PomPom made with leftover charcoal (KBN02).

Beanie Titfer:
1 hank of John Arbon Knit By Numbers, shown in KBN55 (ecru)

Approx. amount used:
60(70)g, 150(175)m / 163(190)yds.

PomPom shown made with leftover Artesano Aran in ‘Nightfall’

Super-Slouch Titfer:

1 hank of John Arbon Kit By Numbers. Not photographed.

Approx. amount used:
80(90)g, 200(225)m / 219(246)yds.