Buttermilk Toque

The Buttermilk Toque is a bottom-up hat packed with small but mighty cables and a generous helping of seed stitch for maximum texture and squishiness. Each row of the pattern repeat is easy to memorize, giving you a visually complex surface texture that’s a breeze to knit.

This pattern is for you if… You are an unabashed lover of 2×2 cables, you can’t get enough of seed stitch, and the thought of combining the two leaves you breathless.

Move along if… Lots and lots of cables are not your idea of a good time.

SIZE

One size, unstretched: 19.25” / 49cm circumference; 7.75” / 20cm tall

YARN

184 yards (168 meters) / 84 grams (3oz) worsted weight yarn that shows stitch definition well. Yardage does not include amounts needed for a pom pom or folded brim, as this varies by knitter.

Sample knit in: Knit Picks Wool of the Andeas Worsted ( 110 yards/101 meters per 50 grams/1.76 oz; 100% wool; 2 skeins) in colour Indigo Heather.

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GAUGE

Per 4”/10cm in cable pattern, blocked: 27 stitches / 31 rows; per pattern repeat, blocked: 2.75”/7cm wide

NEEDLES

Size A: 1 US 6/4mm 16”/40cm circular needle, or size necessary to obtain gauge
Size B: 1 US 7/4.5mm 16”/40cm circular needle, or size necessary to obtain gauge
Size C: 1 set of double pointed needles the same size as Size B

NOTIONS

stitch markers, tapestry needle for weaving in ends, optional: pom pom maker

TECHNIQUES

knitting in the round, making knit and purl stitches, increasing and decreasing stitches, making cables using up to four stitches