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Barry by Lee Meredith

stripy hat with diagonal construction, made custom fit in any gauge with different color and style options

• use any weight yarn to make any sized hat
• make buttoning or seamed closed
• standard hat is slouchy; modifications included for non-slouchy
• all garter stitch variation included
• use the same main/contrasting colors throughout or change colors
• short rows join all sections modularly with no picked up stitches

you'll need:
• your choice of yarn in any weight, in 2 or more colors - estimates are for standard adult size hats. bulky: 80-120 yards / 70-110 meters total; worsted: 100-150 yards / 90-140 meters total; sport: 180-230 yards / 165-210 meters total; fingering: 200-260 yards / 180-240 meters total (blocking is important, so wool or other animal fibers are recommended)
• needles sized to match yarn - a long circular (24 inches / 60 cm or longer) is recommended
• 4 stitch markers (3 the same color/type, 1 different)
• for buttoning version: buttons (amount and size needed will vary depending on gauge)

self-published in March 2013

on ravelry
photos on flickr
blog post

$6 for the single pattern pdf

or $12 for the pattern trio

or $6 for the printed pattern booklet, at your local yarn shop or for sale here

If you have the print version of the pattern,
here are process photos which wouldn't fit into the print format
(these photos are all included in the PDF version of the pattern)

And see these tutorial pages for step-by-step how-to's on the techniques used:
locking in carried yarn strands

section 1 progress, and garter stitch variation optional modification (done normally on top, and with extra mod on bottom):

buttonholes and buttons pinned on to place before sewing:

back side (I shows how the wrong side of section 1 looks, with the locked in CC yarn, and J shows the wrong side edge of section 2):