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Mont Blanc Cake is a hat featuring a beautiful slip-stitch cable over a striped stockinette background.

Like the yummy French dessert, combining a chestnut cream purée with a meringue component and topped with whipped cream, this hat looks awesome, but isn’t complex to make.

The slip-stitch cable is worked only on CC rows, while slipped on MC. This technique produces a dramatic cable even on a stockinette background… that means that there is very little purling involved in the process.

And if you follow the Tutorial at the end of the pattern on working cables without cable needles, this hat will be finished in no time!

Finished size: One size fits most adult heads.
Size is easily customizable, using different yarn weight and needle sizes.

Materials:
MC: Cascade Yarns Cascade 220 (100% Peruvian Highland Wool, 200 m (220 yds)/100 g), col: 8622 Camel. Approx 60 m (65 yds) -30 g.
CC: Buona Léna Appenninica Romagnola (100% Wool, 220 m (241 yds)/100 g), col: Naturale. Approx 55 m (60 yds) - 25 g.

Needles:
3.75 mm /US 5 * DPNs, minicircular, or circular needle with 100 cm/40” cable for the brim.
4 mm/ US 6 * DPNs, minicircular, or circular needle with 100 cm/40” cable for the crown.
* or size needed to obtain gauge.

Notions:
1 marker A (beg of rnd);
2 markers B;
6 markers C;
Tapestry needle.

Gauge:
20 sts and 34 rows = 10 cm 4” in striped stockinette stitch with bigger needles.