Auricle Beanie

Keep your auricles stylishly warm with this garter rib beanie worked all in one piece. Strategic increases and decreases create a whorled rib pattern that dips down over the ears creating a subtle earflap. In other words, an earflap hat that doesn’t require three separate pieces and mid-row cast-ons. Features written and charted instructions, and sizing options.

Skills: Working in the round, knitting, purling, increasing, decreasing.

Yarn: Knit Picks Paragon Sport Weight (50% fine merino wool, 25% baby alpaca, 25% mulberry silk; 123yd/112m; 50g), Ash; 2 skeins. Hat uses about 136yd (55g).

Gauge: 22 sts/39 rows = 4”/10cm in garter rib patt, blocked and relaxed.