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“You don’t have to be gay to be a supporter—you just have to be a human.” ~Daniel Radcliffe, British actor

I have always loved color. My bedroom was decorated in rainbow from the time I can remember. My college apartment had a huge, stretched canvas frame with a giant rainbow circle in the middle. When I designed the Cahoots Sweater (2017) I loved the color placement of starting with yellow. I had all this leftover yarn and wanted to create a companion piece.

Well, 4 years later, I decided to work up a rainbow striped hat and I love the way it turned out. Last year, I donated all sales of the
Trevor Hat to the Trevor Project, and I will do the same for this design. The hat is designed to be worn with negative ease, and the nature of corrugated ribbing and stockinette is that it will pull in quite a bit. Keep your floats loose.

YARN: Worsted-weight (approximately 250 yds per 113 g) - 50 (75, 90, 130) yds/(46 (68.5, 82.25, 119) m) of main color and less than 8 g or less than 30 yards of each contrast colors

SAMPLES used Stonehedge Fiber Mill Shepherd’s Wool 3-ply Worsted (100% merino; 250 yds/228 m per 113 g) using main color Granite and six contrasting colorways: Buttercup, Christmas Red, Orange, Lime Green, Turquoise, and Violet.

This is a great scrap yarn project.

Baby sample weighed 41 grams (w/o pom) using 91 yards/93 m.
Adult Medium sample weighed 58 g using 128 yards/ 117 m.
Adult Large sample weighed 66 g using 146 yards/133 m.

Tech editor and graphic design by Corrina Ferguson.

Test knitters were Samantha Christensen, Erin Davis, Susan Eiseman Levitin, Carolyn Janz, Marcy Laredo, Amy Mikelson, Jessica Schick, Victoria Pileski, Helen Woodcock.

Photograhy by Anna Stauber of Boreal Studios. Model is Johanna Hamilton Smith.