This luxuriously soft and toasty warm hat was designed to be worn from chilly winter city streets to the fresh and nippy winter air of your favorite state park… or the cool, high altitude of the Tibetan Plateau where the fiber used for this pattern originated.

This pattern has been test knitted.

SIZES
S/M (M/L)

FINISHED MEASUREMENTS
16 (16.75)“ (40.5 (42.5) cm) circumference x 9” (22.75 cm) tall
Samples shown in M/L on 23.5” (60 cm) head.

YARN
Reywa Fibers’ Embrace (100% Tibetan yak down, DK; 200 yd (183 m)/90 g)
1 skein Black Orchid
or
Quince & Co.’s Chickadee Organic Heather (100% organic wool, sport/DK; 164 yd (150 m)/50 g)
1.25 skeins Kittywake

NEEDLES
US 5 (3.75 mm) dpns or 16” circular needles
US 6 (4 mm) dpns or 16” circular needles + 32” circular needles for magic loop
Or size to obtain gauge

NOTIONS
scrap yarn, 10’ (3m) long
crochet hook, approx. 3.75 mm
2 stitch markers
tapestry needle

GAUGE
23 sts and 32 rnds = 4” (10 cm) in stockinette stitch on larger needles, before blocking

SKILLS REQUIRED
Provisional cast-on, working in the round, picking out a waste yarn cast on, knitting stitches together from two needles, decreasing, Kitchener stitch grafting