This fair isle hat is a great first stranded knitting project. The floats aren’t very long (5 stitches at most!) so tension isn’t as much of an issue and you won’t need to tack your floats up. If you’ve never done fair isle this is a good first project!

In order to complete this hat you’ll want to be comfortable with knitting in the round and CCD decreases (the hat ends with a round of SSK as well). You’ll want to have around 100y of the background worsted weight yarn (Color A) and around 75y of the secondary worsted weight yarn (Color B).

FYI: I’m a pretty loose knitter, so keep an eye out on your gauge! I use a US5 but most people need somewhere between a US 7-9. As written it fits me really well (an average adult male head at 22.5”).