Chubby Cabled Tam

Project: Chubby Cabled Tam

Pattern: Chunky Cabled Tam by Heather Carlson from Knit.1 Fall/Winter 20008

Materials: Elsbeth Lavold Chunky AL in a burnt orange color (3 balls), US size 6 16" circ, US size 11 16" circ, US size 10 DPN's

Time to Knit: about 4 hours

Notes:

I made quite a few mods to this pattern. I wanted to make it smaller and less bulky for my dd, and also not run out of yarn. I did not do the second set of 44 increases, in fact I decreased 4 stitches for a total of 96 sts for the body of the hat. I also made the hat shorter in length, doing just a single pattern repeat before the additional 5 rows and the decreases. I also knit the brim on size 6 needles, and when I switched to DPn’s I used 10’s (both out of laziness, because I couldn’t find the other sizes) I’m glad that I didn’t make it any bigger, because this is still one big hat, and fits me as well as dd. I knit this on Christmas Day as I sat chatting with my folks. The mods that I made also fit the amount of yarn that I had almost perfectly. I had just a few yards left when I was finished. I held the yarn doubled throughout the pattern, and I think that the alpaca in this yarn gives it a nicer drape than the 100% wool that was used.