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Ok look. Maybe you’re currently working on something breathtakingly intricate. Something with beads and cables and lace and six different colors of yarn and steeks and very possibly a zipper somewhere in there. And if you are, that’s great! I’m happy for you! I hope you adore what you’re working on!

But I? I kinda need to just knit. Just make one stitch after the other. No counting. No being glued to a chart. No hard rows where I need to make sure I have good light and my glasses handy. No cable needle to lose. Just knit and knit and knit. But with just enough going on to keep me entertained, because somehow I will get distracted if there’s nothing but stockinette.

If you’re right there with me, I think I have the perfect hat for you.

Work a brim (there are three different ones in there), then sit back and knit in beautiful, meditative stockinette until you come to a colorful stretch of yarn. Work a tiny bit of magic! Then go back the stockinette. Keep clipping along like that until it’s time for the decreases (there are three different ones of those too).

It’s quick and easy and yet somehow still deeply satisfying. I knit all three, and I’m still sort of wanting to make more!

A quick note about the yarn: These hats were made with yarn specially dyed by Gauge Dye Works for this pattern. You’ll find it here. One skein of that yarn will make any one of the three hats included in this pattern.

However, you don’t have to use that yarn to make these hats. You can absolutely make this pattern with two (or more) yarns (a background color to work most of the stitches in and a contrast color or colors to make the fancy bits in) instead of one specially dyed yarn. The pattern includes detailed instructions on how to do that.

You’ll want about 50 yards of your contrast color (or colors if you want more than one, it’s fine if it’s a bit less, this is a great way to use up leftovers from other projects) and about 175-200 yards of your background yarn. All the yarns need to be about the same weight as each other. And you can use any weight of yarn that gives you a fabric you like at one of the included gauges (that means pretty much anything from heavy fingering up through heavy worsted should be fine).

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