Cap

The hat is knitted in the round, on needles, without a single seam. It has a lining made of plush yarn, which is crocheted. You will need: circular needles number 2.5, crochet hook number 2, yarn Alize Lanagold classic and Alize Softy of the same shade, 1 skein each, and double-pointed needles number 2.5. Work process: First, we knit the lining. Using a crochet hook number 2 and plush yarn, we crochet the hat with double crochet stitches based on the provided table and data according to your size. The bottom of the hat is a circle with increases. Once the required diameter of the bottom of the hat is reached, we knit without increases in a circle until the necessary depth of the hat is achieved. Using the same hook, we attach a half-wool thread along the edge of the finished lining and crochet the edge with single crochet stitches. From the resulting braid along the edge, we pick up stitches for knitting on circular needles, making sure to do this under the upper half-loop of the braid made of single crochet stitches. We join the knitting in the round and then knit without seams in a circle in a 2*2 ribbing to a height of about 3 cm. After the ribbing, we knit 1 row of knit stitches, count the number of stitches, which should be a multiple of 16, as there are that many stitches in the pattern repeat. Be sure to increase the stitches by at least one more pattern repeat. Next, we knit according to the pattern chart with braids to a height of about 18-20 cm. The chart is suitable for knitting in the round. The horizontal line represents a purl stitch, and the vertical line represents a knit stitch. The shaded 4 stitches are the crossover stitches, where two front stitches are knit and two back stitches are purl. At a height of about 18 cm, we start closing the stitches. We transfer the knitting to double-pointed needles. Decreases are made every second row. First, we decrease stitches in the convex parts of the braids, which consist of knit stitches (1 stitch at the edges of each pattern repeat), and then in the central part of the pattern repeat, in the knit rows of the pattern - garter stitch. 1 stitch at the edges of the pattern. This way, the decreases will be less noticeable. The upper part of the crown consists of knit stitches in the round with decreases at equal intervals. I hope everything is clear. Wishing everyone creative success!