1366 Melrose - Hat Knitting Pattern for Kids and Adults in Valley Yarns Sunderland

cosy and colourful, Valley Yarns Melrose is a stranded colourwork hat worked in luxurious Sunderland yarn. Warm, drapey, and velvety soft, Sunderland is a baby alpaca yarn that’s ideal for accessories that you want to be next to the skin soft. Melrose is knit seamlessly in the round from the folded ribbed brim and stranded colourwork rise to the stocking crown. Choose your favourite shades of Sunderland and create a hat that will keep you or a loved one toasty warm even as temperatures drop. Stranded colourwork patterns are charted only.

Skill Level: Intermediate
Sizes: S (M, L) to fit 18–20 (20–22, 22–24)" head. Sample shown in size M.
Finished Measurements:
    Circumference (unstretched) – 18 (20, 21¾)"
Yarn Requirements: Valley Yarns Sunderland (100% Baby Alpaca; 50g/109yds)
    Main colour – 2 balls (all sizes), shown in Natural
    Contrasting colour 1 – 1 ball (all sizes), shown in Pacific Teal
    Contrasting colour 2 – 1 ball (all sizes), shown in Lavender Mist
Needles:
    US 5 (3.75mm) 16”circular for brim
    US 6 (4.00mm) 16” circular and DPNs, or size needed to obtain gauge
    US 7 (4.50mm) 16” circular (if needed to maintain gauge in stranded colourwork)
Gauge:
    22 sts and 30 rnds = 4" in stocking stitch with medium needles, blocked
    22 sts and 30 rnds = 4" in stranded colourwork with largest needles, blocked