As a classicist spending a fair amount of time looking at vase art, I had the idea of making a hat that mimicked some of my favorite styles and pieces of Athenian art. Thus the Penelope ancient Greek vase hat was born!

This pattern is a one-size stranded colorwork hat with a pattern based on ancient Greek vase art. It requires three colors of worsted weight yarn and size 7 16” circulars and/or DPNs. You will likely need a bit less than one skein of the dominant yarn color, and less than 50g of each of the two accent colors.
Skills needed: knitting in the round, decreases, stranded colorwork (with three colors).
This is probably not the best pattern for just starting with colorwork, but it is certainly possible to knit it without any colorwork experience. Just watch out for the fact that there are large areas of only one color, and as you go you should catch the other two colors periodically by wrapping the working yarn around them so your floats don’t get ridiculously long. With three colors it’s easy for your yarn to get tangled as you go. I preferred to move the entire ball of yarn every time I have to cross one color over another, but you could also just let them get tangles and periodically untangle.
For more notes, see the pattern itself.