Wear a flower crown, but make it spooky.

This is a slouchy fingering weight stranded colorwork hat, knit in 2 colors, available in 3 sizes, for the spooky at heart. (Or hart, whichever.)

This hat is knit from the bottom up, beginning with ribbing and transitioning into a stranded colorwork motif, ending in decreases, and topped off by an (optional) pom pom.

Note: Colorwork is charted only.

Skills Required:

Knitting/purling, stranded colorwork knitting, decreases. (Pattern includes a tutorial on managing floats in colorwork.)

Sizing: Child (adult S/M, adult L)
Fits head: 20”, 22”, 23.5” in circumference.

Materials:

2 different colors of fingering weight wool yarn.

Example hat uses LolaBean Yarn Co. Bean Sprout in Tangled Tower for C1 and Hazel
Knits Blueprint in Queen of the Night for C2

C1​: ​160 ​(​175​, ​200​) yds
C2​: ​65​ ​(​80​,​ ​100​) yds

Suggested Needles:

2.75 mm (US 2) needles for the ribbing and 3.23 mm (US 3) needles for the colorwork. Can be knit with either a 16” circular needle and DPNs, or a longer (40”+) circular needle using Magic Loop.

Notions:

Stitch markers, yarn needle.

This pattern has been test knit and tech edited.