Binham Beanies are ideal quick knits for small quantities of DK yarn. Each of the five designs shown is available in the one pattern.

The hats can be knitted flat, or in the round, and the pattern provides charted instructions for the stranded colourwork.

Binham is a medium-sized village approximately five miles inland, on the North Norfolk coast (UK). Binham appears in William the Conqueror’s 1086 Domesday Book, the ‘great survey’ he commissioned to assess the extent and worth of his new realm.

Now Binham is mostly known for Binham Priory. The priory, founded in 1091, was dissolved in Henry 8th’s 16th Century reformation of the Church and is now mainly a ruin. However, the priory church does still stand and serves as Binham’s parish church. It is also the venue for many well-regarded classical music concerts.

Although now well regarded, history records a scandalous list of stories about Binham Priory, particularly the scurrilous antics of some of its monks. Stories involving smuggling and licentiousness. And on a dark night, with the faint sounds of the sea sweeping in over the fields, it is said ghostly figures, in monks’ robes, can be seen wandering amongst the strange stones stacks of the priory’s ruins.