Knitting Jenny Pattern 130: Irish Aran Islands Inspired Cabled Ski Hat

Knitting Jenny Pattern 130: Irish Aran Islands Inspired Cabled Ski Hat is influenced by the historic knitting heritage of the Aran Islands, which includes wool traditions of knitting complex patterns with cables and other textured motifs. 

Knitted cables are associated with aspects of the sea and land of the Aran Islands, located approximately 30 miles from the city of Galway, on the Atlantic coast of Ireland.

Knitting Jenny Pattern 130 includes a turnup brim with cabling and instructions in the following inclusive formats::

• Charts
• Written Instructions
• Illustrations

The ski hat is knit circularly, and is constructed in one piece, as follows:

• Cast on, join circularly, knit the cabled motifs for the turnup brim, knit the interior brim ribbing, decrease at the crown. 

Knitting Jenny Pattern 130 features 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 130.

The Tahki brand Kashmir putup is 40 gram balls that include approximately 97 meters, per the yarn labels pictured on this page.

• The finished hat alone weighs 81 grams.
• The pom pom alone weighs 14 grams.
• The hat with the pom pom weighs 95 grams.

The following knitting tools are suggested.

• 3.5mm, 16 inch circular knitting needle (for the ribbing at the cast on edge)
• 4.0mm, 16 inch circular knitting needle (for all other knitted sections)
• 4.0mm double pointed needles (for the crown decreases)
• 4.0mm cable needle
  

The gauge for Knitting Jenny Pattern 130 is:

• 26 stitches and 32 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 hat pattern specifies 4.0mm knitting needles for the cabled patternwork, which produces a Size Medium hat. 

To change the hat size, change the needles per the following technical specifications for the adult head:

• 3.5mm needles; Size Small; Approximately 21 inches in head circumference
• 4.0mm needles; Size Medium; Approximately 22 inches in head circumference
• 4.5mm needles; Size Large; Approximately 23 inches in head circumference

To support knitting education and consistent, uniform stitch definition, the following chapters are included, titled:

• Seamlessly Joining Circular Knitting
• Water Splicing
• Washing and Blocking

The book includes 9 illustrations and 19 pages. 

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

Published in the United States in 2026 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.