Description: The Kismet Toque is a beautifully textured hat that pairs particularly well with one strand of a brushed lace weight yarn with one strand of fingering weight yarn for a remarkable finish. This hat is elegant and classic and sure to keep you warm this winter!

Method: knitting

Skill Level: intermediate

Yarn: Fingering weight sock yarn held double with lace weight alpaca suri.

Yardage: 50 g fingering weight yarn, 25 g lace weight yarn like alpaca suri or mohair.

For my size 2 sample I used 45 g (180 m or 197 yd) of sock yarn and 30 g (176 m) of alpaca suri lace, both from Bramble Ridge Hand Dyed Yarn (Oxide and Overcast, respectively).

Needles: US2.5 (3 mm) circular needles for the brim, US4 (3.5 mm) circular needles for the body of the toque, US4 (3.5 mm) DPNs for decreasing the crown.

Approx. Gauge: 24 sts x 30 rows in motif st pattern, 29 sts x 18 rows in 1x1 ribbing (not stretched), neither washed nor blocked.

Sizes: 1 (2) have 88 (96) sts cast on and the brim 14 (16) cm or 5.5 (6.5) in.

Notions: tapestry needle, stitch marker.

Abbreviations:

c/o - cast on
sts - stitches
k - knit
p - purl
k2tog - knit two together
k4d - knit 4 down
sl - slip
BOR - beginning of round
DPN - double pointed needle