There are a lot of mountains and hills called Sugarloaf, but mine—the inspiration for this—is cone-shaped, and either covered in or made up of fairly large rocks and boulders, mostly quartzite.

Sugarloaf uses textured, detailed, grainy stitches to make a very slightly tapered cowl that’s reminiscent of a peak populated by those large quartzite boulders and rocks, with an iconic conical shape.

In a slight break from a totally literal mountain-shape interpretation, this design features three different stitch patterns (and garter-stitch to separate them), for an engaging project with a detailed finished look.

(This may be described as an easy project. I’m very tempted to describe it that way. There are no structural experiments. All you need to be able to do, really, is knit in the round, and to be comfortable—or able to get yourself comfortable—with centered decreases and slipped-stitch (sl1wyf) patterns.)

Gauge:
Gauge is 17 sts and 26 rows over 2”/5cm of blocked stockinette worked in the round. Please be sure to check your gauge.

Materials:

• About 300 yards or 2 skeins of Malabrigo Yarns Rios, or another soft, well-defined worsted-weight yarn
• 1 16” or 24”circular knitting needle in US7/4.5mm, or size needed for gauge
• 1-4 removable stitch markers
• Tapestry needle