Try your hand at colorwork with this striped beanie. It’s worked back and forth in rows and seamed—no working in the round needed! Each stripe is four rows wide, and the garter-ridge pattern is a four-row repeat, so you always know where you are in the pattern.

Difficulty Beginner

Yarn Weight 4

Finished Size 19 1/4” circumference and 8 3/4” tall.

Yarn Blue Sky Fibers Woolstok Bundle Kit Cool (100% Peruvian highland wool; 21 mini-hanks, 12 yd 11 m/ 3⁄16 oz 5 g each; 252 yd 230 m/ 3 3/4 oz 105 g total): #1317 Midnight Sea (dark blue; A), #1318 Thermal Spring (pale blue; B), #1308 Golden Meadow (yellow; C), #1305 October Sky (medium blue; D), #1306 Wild Thyme (dark green; E), #1320 Spring Ice (light blue; F), and #1309 Earth Ivy (yellow-green; G), 3 mini-skeins each.

Needles Sizes 4 (3.5 mm) and 5 (3.75 mm). Adjust needle size if necessary to obtain the correct gauge.

Notions Tapestry needle.

Gauge 23 sts and 40 rows = 4” in Garter Ridge patt on larger needles.

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NOTES

• This hat is worked back and forth in rows and seamed.

• Break yarn at each color change.

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