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Skill level: Beginner

The Stash Happy Hat is a stash-busting, easy-knitting, head-warming, quick-to-knit hat. The hat is sized for baby through large adult. Each hat is unique, as two strands of fingering weight are held together to create a one-of-a-kind striped marled colorway in each hat. Stash dive and use coordinating leftovers from socks and shawls or grab a fingering mini-skein set from your Local Yarn Shop and play with twirling the colors together in fantastic color combinations.

Construction Details:
The Scrap Happy Hat is worked in the round from the brim towards the crown using two strands of fingering weight yarn held together. Smaller needles are used for the ribbed brim and the larger needles are used for the body and crown.

Skills Required:

• Cast on
• Joining in the round
• Knit/Purl
• Decreasing (k2tog)
• Working with DPN (or preferred small circumference knitting technique)
• Weaving in ends as you knit is a helpful trick here: Weaving in ends for American/English Style knitters Weaving in ends for Continental Style knitters

Sizes: 6-12 month (12-18 month, 2-5 years, 5-12 years)(Adult Small, Adult Medium, Adult Large)

Finished measurements: 14.5 (16, 17, 18.5)(20, 21, 22.5)”/37 (40.5, 44, 47.5)(51, 54, 57.5) cm circumference & 6 (6.5, 7, 7.5)(8, 8.5, 9)”/15 (16.5, 18, 19)(20, 21.5, 23) cm depth.

Gauge: 18 sts and 24 rounds = 4”/10 cm in stockinette stitch with yarn doubled using size needle to obtain gauge.

Needles: US 8 (5 mm) 16”/40 cm circular needle and DPN or size needed for gauge, US 6 (4 mm) 16”/40 cm circular needle or two sizes smaller than size needed for gauge. Adjust needle size as necessary to obtain the correct gauge.

Yarn: approximately 175 (225, 250, 275)(300, 325, 350) yards total of assorted fingering weight (CYCA #1) yarns.

Other Materials: stitch marker, tapestry needle.