Fisher women’s color-stranded hat pattern is a great pattern to use to start designing hats. It is a well written step by step process of how to size a hat from infant to adult. It teaches how to use the yarn chart to figure out the equation of how many stitches to cast on for each head size. It requires 2 different colors of worsted weight yarn and is a good stash busting pattern. Keep in mind the warm and cool tones of the color wheel when picking yarn. The knitter will be required to knit a swatch to decide if it is the right fabric to use.