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The hat is not difficult but requires the knitter to be open to new things and resourceful about researching techniques that may not be familiar.

Knitting in the round, stranded colorwork from charts, increasing, decreasing, joining live knitting (the earflaps) to newly cast on stitches, icord and basic hand sewing skills for the optional lining are all required.

You will need two skeins of the main color and one of the secondary color. Actual usage will vary by the size chosen.

Note that the original 2010 PDF for this pattern had a few errors. They were corrected a few days later in a revised version dated "Feb24". If you have the original free download and did not request the update before the end of 2013 you will need to purchase the corrected edition as the original is no longer supported.