The Midnight Selbu hat is a celebration of colorwork! You can work this hat in just two colors, as the samples show, or as many as you would like. If you have small amounts of sock yarn left (you’ll need approximately 30g of each color), you can use those. If you have a couple of 50g skeins of fingering weight kicking around, those work too! And, of course, if you love fair isle knitting, you can use lots of colors to help stash down those partial skeins. The yarns don’t need to be identical, but I do not recommend mixing superwash and non-superwash yarns.

My samples were knitted in a variety of non-superwash yarns, both woolen- and worsted-spun. All of them look very different, and all are cozy! You can change the size of this hat by changing the needles and yarn slightly. For a larger hat, you might also want to go up to a sport weight yarn. For a child, go down a needle size or two.

This pattern is charted only. Knitting colorwork charts are read right to left and bottom to top. If you have questions about the pattern, please don’t hesitate to email me at barnabyknits@gmail.com. Happy knitting!