Tu nian hat pattern

Keeping you warm and supporting your creative year is Tù nián or Year of the Rabbit.

This year we have a water rabbit which means the coming year should bring harmony and calm; gentle and clear like morning dew settled on on a leaf.

This is a pattern for beanie worked in the round and using the stranded colourwork technique.

Since there are longer floats over some colourwork sections, you may want to use the Ladder-back/Invisible Jacquard technique included in this pattern.

yarn:

Léttlopi by Ístex; Aran; 100% Icelandic; 109yds (100m) / 50g

approximate yarn amounts:

colour A (Black Heather 0005) - 8 (10, 12) g; 1 ball

colour B (Light Ash Heather 0054) - 36 (38, 40) g; 1 ball

colour C (Royal Fuchsia 1705) - 22 (24, 26) g; 1 ball

needles:

3.75mm (us no 5) circulars

4.0mm (us no 6) circulars

DPNs for crown shaping

gauge:

20 sts x 22 rows = 4in/10cm over stranded stockinette on 4.0mm needles

Some knitters work stranded and single-coloured at different gauges. Change needles, as needed, to keep gauge the same throughout.

approximate finished sizes:

1 (2, 3)

circumference - 15.75 (19, 22) in / 40 (48, 56) cm

height - 9.5 (10, 10) in / 24 (25.5, 25.5) cm

to be worn with 0.5 - 1 in / 1.5 - 2.5 cm negative ease

additional tools:

needle to weave in ends, st markers