Every woman is someone’s daughter. This hat was designed to crown all daughters, daughters in law, surrogate daughters, the daughters of all those dear to you and all those women who were born daughters. Pair a beautiful jewel of a multicolured skein with a plainer yarn for maximum effect.

From the lovely braided two-colour cast on to the beautiful pattern on the crown this is a thing of gorgeousness.

Sizes

Yarn choices
You will need two DK yarns in with good colour contrast. To get a similar look use one plain yarn and one self-striping. For my plain yarn I used Wooltops British Wool - DK, a lovely shetland-type yarn in soft natural grey (and a real bargain) for my neutral yarn. My coloured yarn was a tonal self-striping handyed and handspun yarn by artisan producer Hooklineandstitches. Variegated or sprinkle yarns are other options and of course this is very smart worked in two plain colours.Wool or acrylic yarns will work fine. Several testers also found it possible to get gauge with worsted yarn or a combination of sport and worsted. Putting the multi-coloured yarn over the top of the plain yarn is an option and some splendid examples can be found among the test knits.

Skills required:
The pattern assumes a one-at-a-time magic loop or short cable circular technique, but can be easily adapted for your preferred circular technique. Skills include:

Two colour cast on (written instructions and links to videos included)
Knit and purl
Knitting in the round
Simple stranded colourwork for the ribbing (links to tutorials provided)
Slip stitch colour work for the remainder of the mitten
Cabling without a cable needle (full instructions provided)
decreasing

Patterns contain
Charts and full written instructions for the back of hand and palm patterns. Links to tutorials for the cast on and ribbing techniques.

Mittens
Estimated yardage:
S (age about 8 to adult small): 170m/184yds (85m/92yds of each yarn)/
M: 200m/220yds (100m/110yds of each yarn)
L: 232m/254yds (116m/127yds of each yarn)

Hat
Choose a size approx 5 cm (2 in) less than your actual head size for a snug fit.

Finished circumference
4 years- adult small 46cm/18in
Adult M 49cm/19¼in
Adult L 56cm/22in

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