Jon's Horseshoe Cap Pattern

Jon’s Horseshoe Hat


by Melissa Sanders


Difficulty: Intermediate (techniques needed are knit, purl, increase, decrease, knit in the round, and cabling)





One of my very favorite things to do is to let someone who doesn’t knit choose the yarn and pattern for me to make them something. I like doing this because it often forces me to use yarn or techniques that I would never think to pick for myself. In this case, Jon picked yarn I hated and a cable pattern I wasn’t particularly fond of…but I love the finished product!

SIZE
: One



FINISHED MEASUREMENTS

Width: 10 inches
(unstretched)
Height: 9 inches
(unstretched)

MATERIALS

[MC] Rowan Harris Tweed (100% wool, 123 yards); color: Lewis Gray; 1 skein

[CC] Rowan Harris Tweed (100% wool, 123 yards); color: Thatch; 1 skein


1 40-inch US #5 circular needle


Notions required:

1 stitch marker

Cable needle

Darning needle



Optional (for pompom):

Two pieces of cardboard with the middles cut out




GAUGE
:
28/30 rows = 4 inches in stockinette stitch


PATTERN NOTES

This hat is worked from brim to crown in the round using the magic loop technique.

Notations

m1 = make 1 stitch by picking up and knitting/purling through bar between stitch just worked and next stitch

Horseshoe Cable Pattern (worked over a multiple of 12 sts)

rounds 1 & 2: k12, p4
round 3: Work 6st right leaning cable, then immediately work 6st left leaning cable, p4
rounds 4-8: k12, p4

Stripe Pattern
rounds 1-6: work in pattern in MC (gray)
rounds 7-8: work in pattern in CC (vomit)





PATTERN

Brim
• CO 84 st in CC, work in 1x1 ribbing for 1 inch or so

Body
• next round: switch to MC, [k4, m1, k4, m1 knitwise, k2, p1, m1 purlwise, p1] repeat to end (105 sts)
• next round: [k12, p2, m1 purlwise, p1] repeat to end (112 st)
• work rounds 3-8 of Horseshoe cable pattern, maintaining stripe pattern
• work Horseshoe cable pattern 4 more times (5 times total)
• when work is 2" shorter than desires, begin crown

Crown decreases
• in MC [k1, k2tog, k9, p4] repeat to end (105 sts)
• in MC [k8, ssk, k1, p4] repeat to end (98 sts)
• in MC [cable 5 to the right (hold first 2 sts to back), cable 5 to the left (hold first 3 sts to front), p1, p2tog, p1] repeat to end (91 sts)
• in MC [k2, k2tog, k6, p3] repeat to end (84 sts)
• in MC [k4, ssk, k3, p3] repeat to end (77 sts)
• in MC [k8, p2tog, p1] repeat to end (70 sts)
• in CC [k2tog, k6, p2], repeat to end (63 sts)
• in CC [k5, ssk, p2], repeat to end (56 sts)
• in MC [k1, k2tog, k3, p2] repeat to end (49 sts)
• in MC [k2, ssk, k1, p2] repeat to end (42 sts)
• in MC [right leaning twist, left leaning twist, p2tog] repeat to end (35 sts)
• in MC [k1, k2tog, k1, p1] repeat to end (28 sts)
• in MC [k1, ssk, p1] repeat to end (21 sts)
• in MC [k2tog, p1] repeat to end (14 sts)
• in MC [ssk] repeat to end (7 sts)

break yarn and draw tightly through last 7 sts


FINISHING
 


• weave in all ends
• attach pom-pom if demanded to by your