Morphology Tam Pattern

This pdf pattern includes written instructions for general construction, with charts for colour work with shaping. Charts include options to work in two colours, eight colours, as well as a colour-your-own chart. Useful tutorials are also included. This pattern is also included in the Morphology Knits ebook.

Knitted in the round, Morphology Tam is worked with a corrugated rib and stranded colourwork, designed to avoid a pattern jog at the beginning of the round. Instructions and charts are included for a regular tam as well as a slouchy tam.

Pattern sizes

Extra Small(Small:Medium:Large) to fit 45½(51:56:61)cm / 18(20:22:24)in head circumference.
Finished head circumference
is 42(44½:51:57)cm / 16½(17½:20:22½)in; choose a size with 4–6½cm / 1½–2½in negative ease.
All sizes can be worked as a Regular (height 20cm / 8in) or Slouchy tam (height 26cm / 10in).

Yarn requirements

Design shown knitted in Jamieson’s ‘Shetland Spindrift’ (100% pure Shetland wool) in two colours: 104 Natural White (MC1) with 688
Mermaid (CC1); and in eight colours: 603 Potpourri (MC1), 180 Mist (MC2), 104 Natural White (MC3), 350 Lemon (MC4), with 1020
Nighthawk (CC1), 688 Mermaid (CC2), 772 Verdigris (CC3), and 259 Leprechaun (CC4).

Two colour Regular tam: 1(1:2:2) balls each of MC1 and CC1.
Two colour Slouchy tam: 2(2:2:2) balls each of MC1 and CC1.

Eight colours and Colour Your Own:145-190m (160-205yds) CC and 160-195m (165-220yds) MC in total.

Tutorials

The pattern includes  the following tutorials:
German Twisted Cast-on
Spit-Splicing
Lifted Increases

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