After I made my first vase hat (see the Penelope vase hat pattern on my profile), I wanted to design another one to use up the yarn left over. I came up with this red/white figure design of a victory scene, designed to use the leftover yarn from the Penelope hat (and vice versa), or just to stand as its own as a beautiful Ancient Greek/Athenian design!

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.