The Daughter Hat (fingering)

This hat was designed to crown all daughters, daughters in law, surrogate daughters, the daughters of all those dear to you and all those women who were born daughters. This hat is also available as a DK version.

Sizes Choose a size approx 5 cm (2 in) less than your actual head size for a snug fit.

Yarn choicesYou will need two fingering weight/4 ply yarns in with good colour contrast. For my plain yarn I used Jamieson’s shetland spindrift , a lovely wool yarn in ivory-white. My coloured yarn was a tonal varigated handyed peruvian wool yarn by artisan producer Art and Yarn. This is also very smart worked in two plain contrasting colours. Wool or acrylic yarns will work fine here.

Construction and skillsThe ribbing is stranded knitting, but the rest of the colourwork is done one yarn per row with the stitches in the second colour simply slipped. The cables are done without a cable needle (full instructions provided).

Pattern containsBoth written and charted instructions. Links to tutorials.