3-color!
. Crowns: Hearth and Void
. Helical stripe with the Modern Fair Isle in the center
. Crowns+40 rounds
. Striping 60 each crown color

To go with my Elbow River shawl

CAST-ON
. KnitPink’s slow-mo Pinhole cast-on
… Quite fiddly on the dpn’s
… Knit a round/row after. I tighten with the tail, then slide the stitches to the right and knit straight across before moving them to the other dpn’s.
… … Doing the kfb’s right away - harder to get that b stitch.

CROWNS
. increase up to 144 sts (36 per dpn)
. in addition to the increases/decreases: 40 rounds

! Remember - the decrease crown is SSK-knit-K2tog for nicer looking lines. I got it wrong on my Tarte Mbgh and it isn’t as cool.

BRIM
. Midsection - folded
… 120 rounds
… The hat is folded in half, so 12” = 6” which is folded again for the brim, so 3” brim which is a little more than the height of my ear.

. Helical
… stop 3 sts before next color
… a little looseness is fine with transition

Weaving in ends
. I get a pinched look from weaving my ends
. Trying the over/under with starting the new color and weaving the ends in. Still a little pinchy, but not as bad.

Question?
. Decreases are SSK to K2tog
. But the very last set is K2tog, SSK. I’m not sure how/why this might matter? This time, I made them SSK, k2tog to match.

Unblocked Dimensions
. Circumference: 19”
. Length: 26”

Blocked Dimensions
. Circumference: 19”
. Length: 26”

Wet-block on head form. Didn’t seem to change sizes, but did bloom.

NEEDLES
. US 2

YARN - This is a great use of half skeins!
Hearth
. Total g: 58.8
. Helical 60r: 12.7r
. Total used: 46.1g

Modern Fair Isle
. Total g: 54.9
. Helical 60r: 39.0r = 15.9u
. Helical 120r: 23.5r = 15.5u
. Total used: 31.4g

Void
. Total g: 57.0
. Helical 60r: 40.1r = 16.9u
. 40r+crown: 10.7r = 29.4u
. Total used: 46.3g