There is something about true farm yarn that tells me it wants to be used - worn, loved and put to work - and it was no different when Wing and a Prayer’s Winter Borrow found its way into my hands. This gorgeous, rustic but soft 100% Shetland wool, from the beautiful pastures of Vermont, was begging to be turned into something practical and useful. And so Earlyrising was born. A unisex ‘let’s get the chores done’ kind of hat. Full of texture and all over intertwining cables, Earlyrising is now our go-to hat - for the early and the late milking shifts, to the midday kid feeding, on my husband’s head, or mine, it works for everyone, every job, every day!

Yarn: 2 (2, 2) skeins Winter Borrow by Wing and a Prayer Farm; 158 yds, 2.6oz, 100% Shetland wool, photographed in “Moorit”
or, 214 (240, 267) yds/196 (220, 245) meters
Needles: US 8 5mm, 16” circular and DPNs
US 4 3.5mm 16” circular,
or size needed to obtain gauge.
Gauge: 26 sts and 32 rows = 4”/10cm over cabled pattern on larger needles.
Notions: Stitch marker, tapestry needle.

Sizes: S (M, L)
Fits head: 20 (22, 24)”/(51, 56, 61) cm around
Actual measurement with no stretch: 15 (17.25,
19.5)“/38 (44, 49.5) cm around
Sample size M