I originally knit this hat as a sample for Romni Wools, a giant yarn store in downtown Toronto where I worked for a year. The yarn, Malabrigo Twist, was new and they wanted something to show customers what it looked like knit up. I picked a Shetland Eyelet lace stitch pattern from Barbara Walker's A Treasury of Knitting Patterns, cast on, and pretty much straight knit without any frogging that I can remember. The decreases worked out neatly and the result was pleasing enough that I decided to re-knit it and publish the pattern for everyone to enjoy. This finally happened about a year and a half after knitting the original sample!
Initially I wanted to call the pattern something else, but the name was already taken. So I named it Chelsea Hotel after a gorgeous song by a talented singer/songwriter friend of mine, Jason Brown, which I listened to while knitting the second sample.
This hat is a very quick knit, in biggish yarn on fairly big needles. The sample I knit took 55 grams of Malabrigo Twist, colour Teal Feather.
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Hatticus is a giant cabled hat topped with a small peak and a huge pom-pom. It's great fun to knit and super quick, with big needles and super-bulky yarn. It's even more fun to wear, and super warm.
The yarn suggested is Cascade Magnum, but you can use any super-bulky yarn that knits to a gauge of about 2 stitches per inch on 10mm needles. Garnstudio Polaris would be another great choice. My hat took about 80 yards Cascade Magnum, colour 9453.
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