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Mesa Verde National Park Beanie Kit

Mesa Verde National Park Beanie Kit by Nancy Bates
Assembled as a kit for The Colorado Wild & Wooly Yarn Crawl 2023

Included in the kit:
  • Pattern
  • All weighed balls of Cascade 220 yarn needed to complete the project

Published in "Knitting the National Parks"
This pattern continues Nancy Bates’ series of 63 Beanies inspired by the U.S. National Parks. It was first released in the book Knitting the National Parks.

A visit to the cliff dwellings carved high into the protected sandstone alcoves of these canyon walls in Colorado is like stepping back in time. The Ancestral Pueblo people who occupied these cliffside communities for generations left behind pottery, tools, and
other evidence of skilled workers of every kind. This fun-to-knit
hat gets its inspiration not from the cliff dwellings themselves, but
from the elaborately decorated black-on-white pottery left behind by the people who lived there.

One size fits an average adult size head (approx. 19 in./48 cm to 22 in./56 cm)

Yarn weight worsted
Gauge 9.5 stitches = 2 inches in stockinette

Needle size
US 5 - 3.75 mm
US 7 - 4.5 mm

Yardage
180 - 200 yards

Recommended Notions:
3 stitch markers - 2 of one color and 1 of another color
Tapestry needle
Cable needle