This pattern was designed as a set with the Start with a Square and Start with a Diamond hat patterns, worked up in a similar manner. ADD ALL THREE TO YOUR CART AT ONCE AND GET ONE FREE! With one skein each of worsted-weight (115 m), dk-weight (240 m), and lace-weight yarns (300 m), you should be able to make one medium size hat of each pattern. If using all three patterns, I recommend first making Start with A Diamond, then Start with A Circle, and finally, using up all your remaining yarn for Start with a Square.

This tight fitting beanie is worked in a worsted-weight solid coloured yarn, with alternating stripes of a speckled dk-weight wool yarn held together with a light pastel lace-weight suri alpaca. The hat begins in an unconventional top down method, where a circle shape is knit flat with the two yarns held double. Stitches for the crown are then picked up around the edge of the circle and worked in the round, continuing in alternating stripes, while increasing the stitch count to the final hat circumference. The body of the hat is worked straight to the brim and the brim is worked in ribbing in the solid worsted-weight yarn before binding off.

SIZES
small (medium, large) with head circumference:
20 (22, 24) inches
51, (56, 61) cm

MATERIALS

1. Main Colour Worsted-Weight Yarn: Hewetopia Worsted, 100% superwash merino, 192 grams/115 m. This is a discontinued base. You can substitute with any Worsted yarn that has similar metres/gram or with a plump DK such as: Over the Moon DK in Moon Berries, Meteroid DK, 100% superwash merino, 100 grams/218 y, 200 m.

2. Contrast Colour DK and Lace-Weight Yarn: Hewetopia DK, 100% superwash merino, 115 grams/240 m held together with Hewetopia The Cloud, 74% baby suri alpaca and 26% mulberry silk, 50 grams/300 m.

NEEDLES
Small 3.5 mm (US 4) and Large 4.0 mm (US 6, or sizes needed to obtain gauge) circular needles with 

• Short (14-16 inches/ 35-40 cm) cord, or preferred method for working both flat and small circumference in the round, and
• Long (30 inches/75 cm) cord, or preferred method for working in the round.

NOTIONS
scissors, scrap yarn or stitch holders, tapestry needle, stitch markers.

GAUGE in 4 in/10 cm after blocking in stockinette in the round with Large needle

• 21 st by 32 rounds