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Alaska Hat in DK yarn FO

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Pattern:

Alaska Hat by Camille Descoteaux

Yarn:

The hat is designed for 4 ply/fingering weight yarn. A 4 ply hat is little use where I live so I used some left over DK yarn:

Isager Yarn Jensen DK in colours 26 (green) and 101 (dark teal).

Cost:

Pattern: Canadian $5.50 = £3.72 at time of purchase (Nov-22)

Yarn: ~£10.40s worth of the skeins in my stash.

Total (excluding labour). ~£14.12

Timeline:

Started – Saturday 26th August

Finished – Monday 28th August

Link to Ravelry Page

Pattern summary

Obviously as the pattern is written for 4 ply and not DK I had to do some adjustments.

  • I cast on 120 stitches, not 144. This meant there were 5 pattern repeats instead of 6.
  • I used 3.5mm needles on the ribbing (instead of 3mm). I also (accidentally) used 3.5mm DPNs when it became too tricky to continue on the 22” circular needle to do the last decreases.
  • (To achieve a 22” circular needle I used a 24” cable with the 5” right hand needle and on the left a 3” needle, this gave me the right circumference to know I was on track for it fitting!).
  • I used 3.75mm needles for the colour-work section.
  • At the end of the colour-work chart (round 35) I did one knit row to move the markers to their new positions (round 42 on the pattern, so I skipped 6 plain knit rounds).
  • On row 42 I knit 30 stitches (not 36) before placing new markers, as I had less stitches and needed to split them into 4 sections).
  • I then immediately started the decrease section and knit this as per pattern (albeit with the smaller needles on the last few rows by mistake).

Overall a very fun and easy pattern to follow. You do need to be able to read a chart though as only row 1 of it is written in full. I’ve written these notes up in case others want to make this pattern in DK and in case I make another some day with some New Lanark yarn!

Yarn Summary

The yarn mostly seems to be sold in 50g skeins, but I bought 1 x 100g of each colour for a total of Danish kr.280 (about £32 today). When I caked the yarns I discovered they were 2 x 50g skeins that had been twisted together and banded/labelled 100g.

A 100g skein of DK yarn = 250m. For the hat I used only 37g of the green and 28g of the blue. I’d previously used 46g in total on the Hastings Mittens.

So I still have 43g of the green left and 46g of the dark teal!! I’m impressed I’m getting so many projects from it and enough for another hat if I chose. It’s a woolly wool, reminiscent of my favourite New Lanark yarn.

I’d be quite tempted to have a colour-work jumper in this yarn and the selection of colours is fantastic. Click the link on the yarn name above to see the range they offer. Perhaps if I go back to Copenhagen one day I will treat myself to some more!

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    • I don’t know if this will help, but I print it and then fold over so the bottom of the page is the row I’m knitting, then I re fold it for the next line and again just knit the bottom of the page. By the end my chart is a tatty mess having been folded so many times but I cannot follow a straight line on a chart without doing this.

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  15. thank you for this! I have had my eye on the Alaska hat pattern for FOREVER. and when I was up in Maine a few weeks ago a found a yarn that had beautiful color to it called mountain, but didn’t have a project so. I walked away and that night looked out over the lake and saw the mountains and they were the exact same color… and instantly the Alaska hat popped into my head. I went back the next day and got the yard and some black to make the tree silhouettes only to realize the year was dk and the pattern called for fingering… I ok with knitting and figured I’d be able to find a dk hat pattern and just apply the color work graph to it, but honestly I’m a homeschooling mom who also works from home and don’t have a lot of time for the trial and error… just before I decided to google it in case someone else tried it first. THANK YOU SO MUCH for posting this and saving me the frustration of trying to figure it out!

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