This is the third in a series of hats designed during the coronavirus pandemic of 2020.
The complete series includes one hat in each colour of the rainbow, a symbol representing hope during a dark time in our lives, made bearable by the spirit of resilience and fellow feeling of friends, neighbours and complete strangers.

Knit in pure wool DK yarn, this hat owes much to the inspiration of Norah Gaughan, the queen of cable design. It requires some skill, but is actually much easier than it looks.

The hat is designed to fit an average woman’s head of 22” circumference. There is quite a lot of negative ease, so should fit a smaller head comfortably. Because of the cable design, it is impossible to increase the size easily by adding extra stitches, but by using a larger needle, it should be possible to increase the circumference size.

My challenge in these trying times was to only use yarn in my stash. The yarn I have chosen for this pattern is a worsted spun DK from a single slaughter-free flock. It took a single 100g skein and I commend this yarn to you and hope that you will support local small businesses at this time.

Because of the constraints we are under at the moment, this hat has not been independently test knit.