Sunday Slouch began as a gauge swatch you can actually wear… and it comes with a little story.

The Fair Isle sweater pattern I was working on for a class looked great on paper. The colours sang and the patterning worked. I had swatched — but I had swatched in stripes.

After about three inches of colourwork, I hated the way the colours I had chosen were working together in pattern. So I ripped back those three inches and rethought my colour placement.

I designed this hat to test the colours properly — and to save my students from the same grief.

Sunday Slouch is a stranded colorwork hat knitting pattern worked seamlessly in the round, bottom-up from brim to crown. If you are comfortable carrying two colors and ready to let Fair Isle patterning do the heavy lifting, this relaxed, generously crowned silhouette is your next cast-on.

Construction and technique

• Bottom-up, in the round, seamless construction; no seaming at any stage
• Stranded Fair Isle colorwork runs through the body of the hat, worked in the round for consistent tension
• Fitted brim transitions to a slouchy, relaxed crown with a classic tapered finish
• Intermediate skill level; prior experience knitting in the round and managing two-color floats makes this a smooth knit
• Lightly blocked to finished dimensions to open up the colorwork

Materials

• Double Sunday, Sandnes Garn (DK weight, 21 sts per 4 in at US 6)
• 185-220 yards total depending on size

o  Approx. 40 grams, of main
o  Approx. 20 grams each of contrast 1 and 2
o  approx. 15 grams each of contrast 3, 4 and 5
o  sample was knit with Double Sunday and is shown in medium size
• US 6 (4 mm) circular or double-pointed needles
• Gauge: 21 sts per 4 inches in Fair Isle patterning, worked in the round, lightly blocked
• Stitch markers; tapestry needle for weaving ends

Sizing

• Three sizes: S, M, L (full stitch counts and finished head circumference measurements in the Notes section)
• Unisex fit; sized to work for teens (13-17) through adults

What’s included

• Written English instructions
• Colorwork chart for the Fair Isle section
• Notes with complete sizing details and finishing guidance

With 185-220 yards of DK weight and a focused colorwork design, Sunday Slouch is an ideal weekend project and a gift worth casting on for. Knit one in team colors, classic neutrals, or whatever colour combination is calling from your stash.