I love this hat. It is squishy and cosy, yes, but then again, it IS DKBrioche, so you’d expect that. I love it mostly because it is a) utterly eccentric, and b) utterly unlike anything else in this book.

A simple, wide, DKBrioche-rib cuff effortlessly transitions into honeycomb DKBrioche, which continues throughout the body of this long and deliberately slouchy hat, until you reach the crown, where a deft colour switch gives way to an evenly spaced set of DKBrioche decreases, bringing the hat neatly to its conclusion in the centre of a nexus of converging lines.

And, thanks to a little bit of mathematical forethought, there is no un slightly jog at the beginnings of the rounds, where the honeycombing would otherwise need to form a seam of sorts: no way! This hat is smooth and perfect all they way from brim to dome.

Oddly, there is no need whatsoever to learn how to do honeycomb DKBrioche in order to make this hat.

What?

Yep: that’s right: if you can do DKBrioche rib, you can do this hat, INCLUDING the honeycomb section, without needing to know anything else at all.

Intrigued? Read on to find out how that can possibly be true…

I have named the hat “Thank You Beate”, after my good friend, who, while trying to uncover the secrets of DKBrioche for herself, fortuitously stumbled upon this fabulous texture, which I then developed further, and have included in this book as its own subsection.

Thank you, Beate, without your fiddling about, this hat would never have come into existence!