Knit beanie PDF pattern by Meghan Fernandes
First published in Pom Pom Issue 30, Autumn 2019 Timbre was part of the Sea Change edition, full of knits inspired by the sea and its surroundings. One of the sea’s most distinctive characteristics is its innately familiar sound. Meghan’s hat is an ode to the sonic qualities of ocean meeting shore, with its symphony of rhythmic waves, shore breaks, and dissonant splashes.
Cabled pom pom hats are a mainstay of seafaring life. The pom pom itself is said to be a French naval invention, designed to protect sailors’ heads in close quarters on rough seas. Yet Meghan flips the switch on thick cable conventions by working them only in a thin mohair that skims the fabric surface, leaving the main fabric uninterrupted beneath.
Ritual Dyes’ Elder is a solid-dyed, springy, light-worsted Rambouillet, held in company with Fae, an otherworldly, polychromatic mohair. Together they create sandlike mottling and striations, while the two-part cables echo the rippling patterns left beneath tidelines by retreating waves. The cables require two cable needles, or take this as a chance to learn cabling without needles; time and tide wait for no one!
3 sizes; 43 (46, 48)cm / 17 (18, 19)”. To be worn with 5 - 8cm / 2 - 3” negative ease
This pattern is also available as part of a collection of 9 patterns in Pom Pom Quarterly, Issue 30.