Beautiful accessories often begin with beautiful yarns. Kingston Tweed provides an earthy feel and lovely tweedy nubs, and Penna offers a light, airy, halo you’ll fall in love with. When held together, these two are a textural dream. The Olive Hat’s braid style cable brim and broken rib body accentuate that lovely texture to it’s fullest. It’ll keep you toasty warm, too!

Olive
Designed by Rachel Brockman

DIFFICULTY
Easy

SIZES
Adult Medium

FINISHED MEASUREMENTS
Brim Circumference: 19½”
Length: 9”

MATERIALS
Universal Yarn Penna (50% baby suri alpaca, 28% extrafine merino, 22% nylon; 25g/186 yds)
• 103 Smudge (A) – 1 ball
Fibra Natura Kingston Tweed (50% wool, 25% alpaca, 25% viscose; 50g/194 yds)
• 106 Olivine (B) – 1 skein
Needles: US Size 6 (4 mm) straight, 16” circular, and DPNs (or your preferred needle for knitting small circumferences)
Notions: Tapestry needle, cable needle, stitch markers, stitch holder or waste yarn

GAUGE
26 sts x 33 rows = 4” in Cable Panel patt with A and B held together as one strand
23 sts x 32 rnds = 4” in Broken Rib with A and B held together as one strand

PATTERN NOTES
This hat begins with a cable panel that is worked flat. After the correct length is achieved, each end is sewn together. Then stitches are picked up around one edge and worked in the round, decreasing to the crown.