The Chapel House Hat features a combination of ribbing and cable work to create a textured winter accessory. The patterns created take inspiration from the architecture of Harrogate Spa Town, particularly the archways and columns that feature on so many of the town’s beautiful buildings. Chapel House, which gives its name to this design, is an especially fine example of this.

Also pictured is the Chapel House Cowl.

The wearer has a 23.5” / 59 cm head circumference. The sample has been worked in size 7, giving the wearer 3.5” / 9 cm of negative ease at the headband.

CONSTRUCTION
This hat is worked bottom-up, in the round. The headband is worked in a ribbed texture, after which the hat is worked in cabled and ribbed textures. Decreases are worked at the top of the hat to shape the crown.
There are multiple options to adjust the hat height to suit your personal preference – these options are written into the pattern instructions that follow.
Please note that all cablework is both charted and written in full.

SIZING GUIDE
This hat is graded into sizes 1 (2, 3, 4) (5, 6, 7). Recommended negative ease is 2-5” / 5-12.5 cm at the headband.
All of the following measurements are for the finished accessory:
Headband Circumference: 14 (15, 16, 17) (18, 19, 20)“ / 35 (37.5, 40, 42.5) (45, 47.5, 50) cm.
Hat Circumference: 15.25 (16.25, 17.5, 18.5) (19.75, 20.75, 21.75)” / 38 (41, 43.5, 46.5) (49, 52, 54.5) cm.
Hat Height (customisable): 7.75 (7.75, 7.75, 9.75) (9.75, 10.5, 10.5)“ / 19.5 (19.5, 19.5, 24.5) (24.5, 26.5, 26.5) cm.

GAUGE
Using 4 mm / US size 6 needles, or needle size required to meet gauge, 22 stitches over 30 rounds, in the cablework pattern, creates a 4x4” / 10x10 cm square.
Headband circumferences assume you are working 6 sts per 1” / 2.5 cm for the headband ribbing.

YARN
The sample has been worked using The Harrogate Yarn Co.’s Mercer Double Knit base (245m / 268yds per 100g) in colourway Agatha’s Claret.

YARDAGE (includes ~10% excess)*
117 (126, 134, 185) (196, 226, 238) metres
128 (137, 147, 203) (214, 247, 260) yards
48 (51, 55, 75) (80, 92, 97) grams
Please note that yardage does not include yarn required to make a pompom.

TOOLS & NOTIONS
3.5 mm / US size 4 circular needles (or needle size 1-2 sizes smaller than gauge needle; to work headband)
4mm / US size 6 circular needles (ideally with cable length to suit circumference of chosen size)
1 marker
scrap yarn
tapestry needle to weave in ends

SKILLS REQUIRED
-Long tail cast on
-Joining and working in the round
-Working a regular pattern of ribbing
-Working C2B and C2F cables
-Reading cable charts OR following cable written instructions
-Work SSK decreases