Pattern (of sorts) for White Hat

Six-Seven-Eight Hat

2 Balls (50g?) Debbie Bliss Cashmerino Bulky
1 Ball Debbie Bliss Astrakhan

This hat was made for my neighbor with a brain tumor. The name comes from the number of stitches in and between the cables (6 and 8) and the number of repeats (7).

Gauge 14 st (of 6 st cable and 8 st purl) =3 inches (rows not too important for gauge but mine came to 22 rows/4 inches)

Size 10 needles, 5 dp and 16” or 24” circular needles

Cast on 98 st, arrange on 3-4 dp if using instead of circulars

Cable pattern 1: every 5 rows hold 3 st behind on cable needle

Cable pattern 2: every 7 rows, alternate holding in front and behind.

Repeat pattern 1 at end (1 2 1 2 1 2 1)

Work in pattern for 4 inches

(Next round decrease by p2tog after every cable,

Work 1 round in pattern), repeat 5 times.

Next round, on all “cable 2”- k2 tog, knit 2, ssk, and last “cable 1” ssk every other round on last stitch of cable.

Brim in Astrakhan:

12 st/2.5 inch or 5 st/inch, I used size 6 needles.

Work 19 inches in garter stitch (k all stitches), bind off and sew ends together, or bind off while picking up end stitches. Sew brim onto hat, with seam on right side (the brim will fold up and over the seam)

Comment with questions, this was a quick and dirty pattern, and probably not the clearest.