Big Wool Little Hat

I have written up another hat pattern ... this time in pdf format and this time its for babies, toddlers and children. The name tells all ... little hat with big wool ... Rowan Big Wool in fact.

Needles: 10mm straight
Yarn: 1 ball Rowan Big Wool
Useage: 70% of ball for child's hat, 60% of ball for toddler's hat and 40% of ball for baby's hat

Big Wool Little Hat

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feather in her hat

Click on the grid to get a better view.

You start from the top of the hat by casting on 8 stitches cast using 4.5mm dpn. Each row of the above grid is repeated 4 times to make a full hat. Change to 3.5mm dpn for the last rows (shaded in grey) and cast off on the final row.

I've used Lorna’s Laces, Fisherman yarn (1 x 500yd/227g hanks, 100% wool) ... Its actually not a full skein, just a bit I had left over from another project. My tension square was worked in stst on 4.5mm needles, 23 rows and 18 stitches per 10cm square.

I'm very happy with the final hat ... its on my head as I type.

Hope that's enough info for y'all.

You can find all the other details at ravelry

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