MY DESIGN IDEAS & ADVICE
I designed this hat because knitters were asking me to design an adult version of the Clapdale Baby Hat. So I’ve named this Clapham after the village in the Clapdale valley, which is “just up the road” from Skipton! We tried this hat on every head at my Yarnaholics group and found it fitted all head sizes. We measured all our heads as we had one or two knitters who thought they had big heads that hats couldn’t fit on, we found that we all have heads that were a similar size with a difference of 5cm between the smallest and largest. This hat fitted everyone’s head perfectly.
CONSTRUCTION
This hat is knitted flat in one piece with a seam.
TECHNIQUES USED
cast on, knit, purl, two simple cable techniques, decreasing.
YARN
One 100g hank of WYS Bluefaced Leicester Aran – Undyed (100% British Bluefaced Leicester wool, 166m/182yds per 100g).
NEEDLES
4.5mm and 5mm
NOTIONS
cable needle, sewing up needle
GAUGE (tension)
24 stitches and 26 rows to 10cm square over cable pattern when slightly stretched. I obtained this gauge with 5mm needles. It is important to obtain gauge so do swatch and change your needle size to achieve the correct gauge if you need to.
SIZE & FINISHED MEASUREMENTS
to fit adult head due to the nature of the rib pattern & individual gauges thte finished circumference can vary from 52cm to 60cm. If the knitter gets the gauge as above the finished circumference will be approx. 56cm.
Click on the following links for my How To videos that may help with this pattern: Click here for my Simple Cable video.
