This pattern is half-price ($3.00) through April 22, midnight Mountain time.

The Sage Bunny hat celebrates the eco-culture of the Taos area – funky, fun, not always PC! Taos has long been an incubator for creativity, invention, and independence – the harsh climate, remote location and limited access to “modern” resources required early inhabitants to have all these traits. In the 1960s Taos ecoculture took off with the influx of new settlers (most folks called them hippies) who created EarthShip communities and communes . This culture, that reaches the sky from the heart, is still alive and well. Our wonderful local sage bunnies have so much to teach us about respecting the land we love and respecting our right to express ourselves in our own, unique ways.

Use any leftover yarn you have, and mix and match crazy colors and textures for a funky, fun hat. Or make it nice and pretty – your choice! A tassle or pompom is a fun way to finish the hat and uses up even more scrap yarn and doesn’t have to match.

Instructions for 3 sizes are given. My beautiful neighbor Anna models the large in both the basic and alternate versions.

Finished Sizes
- Child - length before crown 6 - 6.5” (15-16.5 cm), unstretched
circumference 16” (40-41 cm)

• Adult medium-small - length before crown 7.5-8” (19-20 cm), unstretched circumference 18” (46 cm)
• Adult large - length before crown 8.5-9” (21.5-23 cm), unstretched circumference 20” (50-51 cm)

Yarn: Malabrigo Worsted or other aran weight yarn, in one or more colors. Scraps of other yarns add interest.

Total approximate yardage: Child 80 yd, Adult S-M 100 yd, Adult M-L 130 yd.

Gauge: 16 st and 24 rows to 4” / 10 cm in stockinette

Needles: 16” circular and 4 double-pointed needles in US 9