Pewter Beanie by Alecia Hornfeldt

Pewter Beanie

Knitting
January 2021
Worsted (9 wpi) ?
20 stitches and 25 rows = 4 inches
in stockinette
US 8 - 5.0 mm
160 - 230 yards (146 - 210 m)
child/teenager (adult MD, adult LG)
English
This pattern is available as a free Ravelry download

Pewter Mitts are the matching fingerless mitts. They’re featured together in one of the pattern photos.

This cabled beanie comes in three sizes and features a double-thick brim with a stockinette crown. The brim is provisionally cast on, knit in the round in a tube, and then grafted together. Stitches are then picked up and knit to form the crown of the beanie. All charts also have written instructions.

Size

  • child/teenager (adult MD, adult LG)
  • to fit head circumference 20” (22”, 24”) | 51cm (56cm, 61cm)
  • actual circumference 18” (20.5”, 23”) | 46cm (52cm, 58.5cm)
  • actual height 7.25” (8.25”, 9.25”) | 18.5cm (21cm, 23.5cm)

Yarn

1 (1, 2) skeins of Cascade 220 or
approximately 160 (190, 230) yards | 145 (175, 210) meters of comparable worsted-weight yarn (220 yards per 100g | 200 meters per 100g) with good stitch definition

Gauge
20 sts and 25 rows over 4” | 10cm in stockinette

Materials

  • size US8 | 5mm circular needles (or size needed to obtain gauge)
  • size US8 | 5mm needles for working a small circumference in the round
  • a cable needle or spare DPN
  • a small amount of worsted-weight yarn in a contrasting color
  • spare circular needle of similar size as your main needles
  • 8 stitch markers
  • yarn needle to kitchener and weave in ends

Skills
provisional cast on, magic loop or otherwise knitting in the round, knit, purl, cabling, grafting, picking up stitches, decreasing