Description
Suggested Yarns:
Bare Naked Wools Stone Soup DK, Better Breakfast DK, or Kent DK, Ghillie Sport/DK, Green Mountain Spinnery Mewesic, ElsaWool Woolen Spun Sport Weight Cormo, Aade Lõng Solid 8/3, Rauwerk Merino DK, Maniototo Wool Woollen Spun DK, Donna Smith Designs Langsoond Double Knit, Uist Wool Reothart DK or Fràs DK, Lammermuir Wool Simply Shetland DK Sholmit, or any lofty DK yarn that knits to pattern gauge
Substituting yarn and/or needles may result in an overall variation in size, drape, or yardage requirement.
Finished Size:
16.5(19.25, 22) inches in circumference around brim (unstretched) to fit heads measuring up to 19.5(22, 25) inches around
Yarn requirements: 185(235, 290) yards as shown with double brim
Gauge: 20 sts and 29 rows = 4 inches in stockinette on larger needles (worked flat, washed, and dried)
Needles:
size 5US (3.75 mm) circular needle and DPNs (or size to obtain correct gauge)
size 4US (3.5 mm) circular needle for hem ribbing (or .25 mm smaller than gauge needle)