Winter is coming…
That’s always true whether you live in Westeros, the Free Cities… or here on Earth.

This Game of Thrones / House Stark inspired beanie has been designed in a fine gauge merino to accommodate the detailed lettering on the front face.

The beanie is fully lined and reversible - so you can do the fanboi thing or flip it inside out when you just want to go incognito.

important - TIGHT gauge is a feature of this pattern, in order to have a proper sized hat with the cast on stitches. The reason there are so many stitches is that the writing takes up half the stitch count, so to keep it all at the front of the hat where it can be read easily, you need to use tiny stitches - otherwise the finished hat will be massive. SO - if you can’t get gauge with the recommended yarn and needles, use smaller needles and try laceweight yarn instead.

FINISHED SIZE
The hat is “one size” for adults and will stretch to comfortably fit most adult heads. There may be a degree of slouch at the crown depending how far back on the head it is worn.

TOOLS & YARN REQUIRED
3ply or 2ply (light fingering or lace) merino yarn
sample was knit in Patons Dreamtime (a thin 4ply)
• main colour dark charcoal grey: 250 yards
• contrast colour light silver grey: 200 yards
• 2.0mm knitting needles (40cm circ used)
• 2mm DPNs - or longer cable for magic loop
• stitch markers
• narrow blunt yarn needle

KNITTING - SKILLS REQUIRED
• provisional cast on
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp235zEZEkQ
• picking up live stitches from cast on edge
• knit
• purl
• decreasing (K2tog)
• increasing (Kf&b)
• 2-strand colourwork (fairisle, worked flat)

(There is a second Game Of Thrones beanie in my pattern store - the other “Direwolf” is pictured in the last sample photo, and uses similar construction to this one, but with duplicate stitch colourwork.)

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