Journey Hood Hat
PATTERN BY TJ O'SuLLivAN http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/journey-hood-hat Journey is an amazing video game created by thatgamecompanyrm. Part of the game's visual appeal is the influence of textiles and tapestries, not only in the character's cloak, hood, and scarf, but also in the tapestry creatures and cloth bridges encountered during play. This hat incorporates the simplest of the cloak border designs into the lower edge, and the shape of the top evokes the shape of the Wayfarer's hood. FINISHED SIZE: Adult L (\~23" finished circumference) YARN: Caron Simply Soft (170g/288m) Autumn Maize (#0008) - 1 skein Autumn Red (#9730) - 1 skein
NEEDLE: 16" circular, size 6 or size needed to give gauge) GAUGE: 20 stitches = 4 inches over st st worked in the round. (NOTE: This hat has a small pattern repeat -8 stitches—and can be easily sized up or down by adding or subtracting a repeat)
Pattern:
Cast On: Using the crochet chain provisional method, C0 112 stitches with Red. (This post on Bella Knitting has an excellent tutorial.) Place marker, join, and knit 10 rounds with Red.
Break Red yarn, join Maize, knit 5 rounds. Purl 1 round (turning round). Rounds 1-9: Follow chart\*, joining Red when necessary. Round 10-15: Break Maize, continue to knit around with Red. Weave in the loose ends. Round 16: Remove crochet chain to liberate provisional cast on loops. Fold facing to inside along purled turn line. K2tog (1 loop from front + 1 loop from facing) around with Red.
You may be a Bold Knitter who removes the chain all at once and picks up all the stitches at once onto a spare circular needle. I myself am a Timid Knitter, and I free one loop at a time, pick it up on a spare dpn, and transfer it to the main working circular needle before performing the K2tog. Continue working even in st st with Red until hat measures about 9" frombottom edge.
Knit 28(or % of theway around thehat),then turn thehatinside out so that the wrong side of the knitting faces outward. Fold the hat in half, front to back with right sides together, so that the working yarn is to the right and the stitches that you'll be binding off are distributed on both endsof the circular needle.
Bind off the stitches using a three-needle bind-off, which casts off and joins the seam at the same time. Neat, huh? (My pictures aren't the greatest, so here's a Knitty tutorial that explains it far better than I can.) \*(Note - the chart has been adapted from tumblr user zygomaticprocess' bead bracelet chart. The original can be found here.)
