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This handsome gansey style unisex cap sports bold rope cables and delicate seeded tree forms sprouting from a brim of half-twisted rib, which can be worked to shorter or longer lengths to achieve your desired fit.

Designed for DK- and chunky-weight gauges, this hat shines in both woolen- and worsted-spun yarns.

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Construction

• The hat is worked circularly from the brim to the crown.

Yarn

Short Hat (Long Hat)

Brooklyn Tweed DK weight yarns

• 155 (165) total yards 142 (151) total meters
• Short hat photographed in Arbor Tincture
• Long hat photographed in Arbor Sashiko

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Brooklyn Tweed Chunky weight yarns

• 130 (140) total yards 119 (128) total meters
• Short hats photographed in Quarry Sweatshirt and Arbor Lodge Cargo

Gauge

DK Version

• 25 stitches & 38 rounds = 4” in Burnaby Pattern (DK) with main needle, after blocking

Chunky Version

• 17 stitches & 23 rounds = 4” in Burnaby Pattern with main needle, after blocking

Needles

DK Version

Main needle

• One 16” circular needle and one set of double-pointed needles (DPNs)* in size needed to obtain gauge listed
• Suggested Size: 4 mm (US 6)

Ribbing needle

• One 16” circular needle, two sizes smaller than Size A
• Suggested Size: 3½ mm (US 4)

Chunky Version

Main needles

• One 16” circular needle and one set of double-pointed needles (DPNs) in size needed to obtain gauge listed
• Suggested Size: 6½ mm (US 10½)

Ribbing needle

• One 16” circular needle, three sizes smaller than Size A
• Suggested Size: 5 mm (US 8)

32” circular needle can be used instead of 16“ circular and DPNs if using the Magic Loop method for working small circumference in the round.

Finished Dimensions

DK Version

• 20¼” 51.5 cm circumference unstretched (to comfortably fit head sizes 19–23” 48.5–58.5 cm)
• 7¼” 18.5 cm tall for short hat or 7¾” 19.5 cm tall for long hat

Chunky Version

• 20” 51 cm circumference unstretched (to comfortably fit average adult head sizes 19–23” 48.5–58.5 cm)
• 7¾” 19.5 cm tall for short hat or 8¼” 21 cm tall for long hat

Tutorials for all special techniques listed below are included in the pattern:

• Video — Rib Cabled Cast On
• Video — Cabling Without a Cable Needle
• Wet Blocking

Skill Level

• 3 of 5: Intermediate

Please note: the stitch patterns for this accessory include both written and charted instructions.