Knitting Jenny Pattern 119: Irish Aran Islands Inspired Cabled Ski Hat

Knitting Jenny Pattern 119: Irish Aran Islands Inspired Cabled Ski Hat features a classic seamless design of textured cables that spiral horizontally up the head, with triangular segments converging at the crown. 

The pattern design was influenced by the historic knitting heritage of the Aran Islands, which includes wool traditions of knitting complex patterns with cables and other textured motifs. 

Often knit with undyed wool, knitted cables are associated with aspects of the sea and land of the Aran Islands, located approximately 30 miles from the city of Galway, situated on the Atlantic coast of Ireland.

The Aran Islands are an archipelago of three islands: Inis Mór, Inis Meáin, and Inis Oírr. Since the nineteenth century, the people of the Aran Islands have cultivated textured cabled knitting, from which Knitting Jenny Pattern Collection 13 is inspired.

Knitting Jenny Pattern 119 features a natural white shade of Tahki brand Kashmir yarn, which is 75% merino wool, 23% silk, and 2% cashmere. 

Alternately, a different wool brand——though similar yarn weight——can be substituted for Knitting Jenny Pattern 119.

The Kashmir put up is 40 gram balls that include approximately 97 meters.

The finished hat weighs approximately 73 grams.

Knitting Jenny Pattern 119 includes knitting patterns, motifs, and instructions in the following inclusive formats:

• Charts
• Written Instructions
• Photographic Tutorial
• 17 Illustrations

The ski hat is knit flat, and is constructed as follows: 

• Cast on, knit flat a very long narrow cabled ribbon, hand stitch the cabled ribbon in a spiral that travels horizontally up the head, then pick up crown stitches to decrease circularly at the apex.
  

The following knitting needles and tools are suggested. 

• 4.0mm straight needles or double pointed needles (for the head)
• 3.5mm double pointed needles (for the crown)
• 4.0mm cable needle (for cabling)
• stitch markers
• scissors
• blunt darning needle

The gauge for Knitting Jenny Pattern 119 is:

• 20 stitches and 26 rows to 4 inches (10 centimeters) over the complete textured cable pattern with knit and purl stitches, knit circularly with 4.0mm knitting needles, after washing, blocking, drying.

The pattern includes instructions to knit sizes Small, Medium, and Large.

The book includes 17 illustrations and 27 pages. 

The book is intended to be read electronically, in consideration of the environment.

Published in the United States in 2025 by Mall & Mall Press, a publishing imprint of Mall & Mall LLC.

The book is delivered as an immediate digital download in PDF format and therefore cannot be returned, exchanged, or refunded.