One of the larger treefrogs with a rather nice call! These beautiful speckled frogs spend much of their time up in trees in our valuable wetlands. Please visit here for more information for Hyla gratiosa and here the call (if you are frog call keen check out this!).

This is a pattern for a slouchy beanie worked from the bottom up, in the round, and using the stranded colourwork technique and including a Latvian Braid detail. A link to the Latvian Braid tutorial is included in the pattern. The frog chart is large and shown as one larger chart for those of you using a knitting app and also broken into 2 smaller charts.

There are a few rounds with long floats and I have included an explanation of the Ladder-Back/Invisible Jacquard method. But you may tack your floats any way you like.

yarn:
Shetland 4ply by Gathered Sheep Yarns; Fingering; 100% Pure Shetland Wool; 233yds (213m) / 55g
approximate yarn amounts:
colour A - 27g; 97yds / 89m
colour B - 17g; 72yds / 66m
colour C - 11g; 47yds / 42m
needles:
2.5mm (us no 1.5) circular 20in/50cm; DPNs 6in/15cm (crown)
3.0mm (us no 2.5) 20in/50cm; DPNs 6in/15cm (crown)
If you are a tight knitter, you may need larger sized needles to work the Latvian Braid.
gauge:
28 sts x 28 rows = 4in/10cm measured over stranded stockinette on larger needles
Some knitters work stranded and single-colour stockinette at different gauges. Change needles, as needed, to keep gauge the same throughout.
approximate finished size:
one size fits many; 21-25 in/53cm-63.5 cm head
additional tools:
needle to weave in ends, st marker