My son is enthusiastically reading the Russian classic novel Dead Souls, which inspired the name of this slouchy beanie. It’s a great stashbuster and features skulls as the main motif.

The pattern calls for sport weight yarn in the following quantities:

45 m/ yards in Colour 1 (pink)
35 m/ yards in Colour 2 (green)
10 m/ yards in Colour 3 (orange)
20 m/ yards in Colour 4 (yellow)
25 m/ yards in Colour 5 (blue)
50 m/ yards in Colour 6 (purple)
25 m/ yards in Colour 7 (white)

The sample hat was knitted in Rauma Finullgarn, 175m/50g. Finull is a woollen-spun rustic Norwegian yarn that knits up much more robustly and thickly than a worsted-spun Merino yarn of the same yardage and weight.