Berroco Celena Hat Knitting Pattern

Berroco Celena Knitting Pattern: Hat and Scarf Set

What Is Being Made

The Celena pattern by Åsa Buchta provides instructions for creating a coordinated set of two knitted accessories using Berroco Lucca yarn. The collection includes a fitted hat and a rectangular scarf, both featuring elegant lace detailing. The hat measures 16 inches around the bottom with a height of 8½ inches when unstretched, while the scarf dimensions are 3 inches wide by 40 inches long, making it a versatile accessory suitable for various styling options.

Techniques Used

This intermediate-level pattern employs several essential knitting techniques to create its finished pieces:

• Seamless construction: Both the hat and scarf are worked seamlessly, eliminating the need for seaming and creating clean, professional-looking garments.
• Worked in the round: The hat is knitted in the round using circular needles and double-pointed needles, allowing for continuous rounds without turning and creating a tubular fabric.
• Worked flat: The scarf is worked flat on straight needles, building the rectangular shape row by row.
• Bottom-up construction: Both pieces are worked from the bottom upward, beginning with cast-on stitches and increasing or maintaining stitch counts as the pattern progresses.
• Lace patterning: Decorative lace elements are incorporated through yarn overs and decreases, creating openwork sections that add visual interest and drape to both accessories.

Stitches Used

The Celena pattern utilizes fundamental knitting stitches combined to create its lace effects:

• Knit and purl stitches: The foundation of the pattern, creating texture and structure through alternating knit and purl columns.
• Ribbing: The hat begins with a k1, p1 ribbing section worked over 1 inch, providing elasticity and a finished edge.
• Yarn overs (yo): These create the openwork characteristic of lace patterns, increasing stitches while forming decorative holes.
• Decreases: Slip, slip, knit (SSK) and knit two together (k2tog) decreases are used to balance yarn overs and shape the lace pattern.
• Increases: Knit front and back (kfb) increases are used in the increase round to expand the hat from 92 stitches to 161 stitches.

Materials: Yarn and Needles

Yarn: The pattern calls for Berroco Lucca, a yarn weight of 50 grams per ball. For the hat, 2 balls of color #5840 Sky are required, while the scarf needs 1 ball of the same colorway. Berroco Lucca is the recommended yarn for this pattern to ensure proper gauge and finished measurements.

Needles for the Hat: The hat requires two sizes of 16-inch circular needles—size 4 (3.5 mm) for the ribbed cuff and size 6 (4 mm) for the main pattern sections. Additionally, a set of double-pointed needles in size 6 (4 mm) or preferred needles for working small circumferences are needed for the crown decreases. A stitch marker is required to mark the beginning of rounds.

Needles for the Scarf: The scarf is worked on straight knitting needles in sizes 4 (3.5 mm) and 6 (4 mm), allowing the flat construction method.

Gauge: The hat pattern achieves a gauge of 24 stitches and 32 rounds over 4 inches in the main pattern when worked on the larger needles. The scarf pattern has a gauge of 26 stitches and 28 rows over 4 inches on the larger needles. Both gauges are measured after blocking, making it essential to knit a gauge swatch and block it before beginning to ensure accurate finished measurements.