DINGLE

In Ireland, not only the grasses are greener, but also the houses are more colorful. When I travelled through Ireland, this place hit me the most. Dingle is a charming place on the peninsula of the same name with many colored houses. Since the colors give the traditional houses a modern twist, the Dingle hat interprets the traditional Fair Isle knitting in a modern way.

The slouchy hat is knitted in the round from the bottom up. For the geometric pattern, no more than two colors are worked in a single round.

Dingle is suitable for mini skeins or leftovers. I worked mine with a gradient set of five colors.

The Dingle knitting pattern is available for 2, 3, 4 and 5 colors.

It also works with a gradient set of four (MC-CC3) and a pop color (CC4). Or play with random semi-solid colors to make your own unique Dingle.

YARN

Spinnwebstube Bio Merino Cablé Fine Minis set (100 % Merino superwash; 382 yd/350m per 100g set); 5 mini skeins of 20g each; (here you can buy the sets)

5 colors
Main color 20 g
Contrasting color 1 20 g
Contrasting color 2 20 g
Contrasting color 3 20 g
Contrasting color 4 20 g

4 colors
Main color 30 g
Contrasting color 1 20 g
Contrasting color 2 20 g
Contrasting color 3 20 g

3 colors
Main color 35 g
Contrasting color 1 30 g
Contrasting color 2 25 g

2 colors
Main color 50g
Contrasting color 1 40 g

Note: the yarn used doesn’t label the individual skeins. I used the darkest as MC, and progressively lighter skeins for CC1-CC4.