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Bellfield
Nordic inspired beanie
£6.00
- 4ply / Fingering weight yarn
- Also available in Bellfield
- Also available on Ravelry
Embrace cosy and festive this winter with Bellfield, a cute stranded colourwork beanie featuring traditional Scandinavian snowflake motifs and a stunning snowflake crown. Bellfield is the perfect gift - quick to knit but very impressive!
The Bellfield Hat makes a great second stranded colourwork project that will stretch your skills. It’s worked bottomup with a cosy folded brim and enough slouchy length to pull down over your ears. The contrast colour cast-on is worked using what might become your new favourite cast on for ribbing: an alternating cable cast on. Working bottom-up means you can begin the colourwork comfortably on a 16 or 20" needle and switch to double pointed needles or magic loop once you’ve established your tension.
Details
In comparison to the first pattern in the Colourwork Club, the Brunstane Cowl, the colourwork in Bellfield is a little more challenging: the pattern repeat is larger, so you might have to focus on the chart more; there are slightly longer floats of 6, and on one round 7 sts; and the crown shaping is incorporated into the colourwork. There’s also a large section in the middle of a very simple repeating pattern, in which only alternate rounds are stranded, so you’ll have a chance to relax. That snowflake crown is totally worth the effort! Whether you add a pom-pom is completely up to you.
Skills for knitting this project
Build your skills by following the links to our clear step-by-step tutorials.
- knitting, purling
- casting on
- binding off
- working in the round
- working small circumferences in the round
- make one increases
- k2tog decreases
- ssk decreases
Optional Techniques
Gauge
30 sts and 32 rnds = 4" / 10cm in charted stranded colourwork pattern with larger needle
Sizing
3 sizes available, choose a size with about 1–3" / 2.5–7.5cm of negative ease
Finished circumference: 16[19, 22½]" / 40[47.5, 56]cm
Finished length: 8½[9, 9]" / 21.5[22.5, 22.5]cm
Shown in sizes m–l
Stranded Colourwork Basics course
Learn more
Learn all of the skills you need to make Bellfield with our beginner colourwork course. The Stranded Colourwork Basics course is a 4 week self-guided online knitting course, with continued access to the course so that you can return to each chapter for a refresher, again and again, whenever you need.
Supplies
Yarn
Shown in Rauma Finull PT2 (100% Norwegian wool, 191 yds/175m, 1.76oz /50g)
Needles and notions
Size 2½ / 3mm 6" / 40cm circular needle
Size 4 US / 3.5mm 16" / 40cm circular and preferred needles for working small circumferences in the rnd.
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