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Busy Day is a lightweight hat featuring a modern stranded colorwork pattern inspired by city streets, architecture, and urban fashion. It’s the perfect accessory to keep in your bag, ready to protect you from the elements.

The hat begins with a long-tail cast-on and is knit in the round, starting with a ribbed brim. The body is worked in stocking stitch, using two colors to create the striking stranded colorwork motifs.

The colorwork pattern is simple, with very short floats and only 24 rounds of stranded knitting, making it an excellent choice for those new to this technique.

Techniques: working in the round,working in small circumferences, stranded colorwork, follow a color chart, knit/purl, and decreases.

SIZES
Small (Large)
Finished circumference (taken above the rib): 18 (21½)” / 46 (55) cm
To be worn with up to 2” / 5 cm of negative ease.
Height: 8½ (9½)” / 21.5 (23) cm

YARN
Fingering weight yarn, approximate amount:

• Main Color: 185 (200) yards / 170 (183) meters
• Contrasting Color: 70 (80) yards / 64 (74) meters

Shown in Knit Picks Palette (100% Wool; 231 yds (211 m) / 50 g). Main Color: Clemantis Heather: 1 skein. Contrasting Color: Iris Heather: 1 skein.

NEEDLES
US 2½ – 3 mm knitting needles suitable for working small circumferences in the round.
Always use a needle size that will result in the correct gauge after blocking.

NOTIONS
Removable stitch markers and tapestry needle.

GAUGE
30 sts and 32 rows = 4” 10 cm over stranded colorwork pattern in the round on US 2½ (3 mm) needles after blocking.
Before you measure, please take the time to wash and block your swatch in the same manner that you will wash and block your hat.