This one is Hidden Highway, because it's a strand of three knit stitches traveling up a reverse stockinette background. More of a highway than a trail.
It was supposed to be a slouchy hat, but it's more of a beanie. And it's a bit large through the hat band. And it's a bit too short.
I did about 6 rows of repeats in pattern after the increases after the hat band, or 1.5 inches, but I probably should have done 2 to 2.5 inches. Then I could have stretched it over a plate or balloon to make it really slouchy. As it is, I'm not going to block it, and I'm going to give it to a big headed friend. He gets most of my hat prototypes. He doesn't seem to mind.
I cast 64 stitches on for the hat brim, and increased to 80 for the hat body. I need to redo my math and cast on around 50, maybe, for the next hat.
I like how the decreases at the crown turned out on this one. On the last hat, Languid Trails, I decreased too many times on the crown and it ended up looking a bit odd. On Hidden Highway, I decreased the reverse stockinette sections down to 1 stitch (on Languid Trails I decreased down to 8 stitches), and used s2kp2 on the 3 stitch wide knit sections, bringing the final stitch count on the crown down to 16, before I threaded the tail through the remaining stitches and pulled the crown tight. I worked one row in pattern between each decrease row.
Size US 11 needles, 0.8 skeins Big Twist Natural Blend Solids (approx. 80 yards) in colorway Light Gray.
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