The name of this hat is a nod to my mom’s and Karin’s childhoods. Both of them spent at least one
Christmas in a German town named Neustadt but different ones.

Dimensions:
Circumference (at bottom brim relaxed) – 18” (46 cm)
Height 10” (25 cm)
Gauge and needles:
1 repeat in cable pattern = 4” (10 cm) by 8 ½” (22 cm) on US
4 (3.5 mm)
US 1 (2.25mm) for ribbing
Notions:
Stitch markers
Cable needle (optional)
Darning needle
10 inch dinner plate or balloon for blocking (optional)
Abbreviations:
k - knit
k tbl – knit through the back loop
p – purl
m1pwise – make one purlwise (lifted bar increase as a purl
stitch)
k2tog tbl – a right leaning decrease where the top stitch is
twisted
Twisted ssk - a left leaning decrease where the top stitch is
twisted
st(s) - stitch(es)
1/1 LT – Slip next st to cable needle and hold in front of
work;
k1 tbl, then k1 tbl from cable needle
1/1 LPT – Slip next st to cable needle and hold in front of
work; p1, then k1 tbl from cable needle
1/1 RPT – Slip next st to cable needle and hold in back of
work; k1 tbl, then p1 from cable needle
1/1 LTP - Slip next st to cable needle and hold in front of
work; k1 tbl, then k1 tbl from cable needle
p2, then k2 tbl from cable needle
1/1 RPT – Slip next st to cable needle and hold in back of
work; k1 tbl, then k1 tbl from cable needle