Knitted in the round this is an easy pattern if you already know how to knit stranded colorwork and this pattern assumes that you do know how to knit stranded colorwork. If you have not knitted stranded colorwork before then this is an experienced level pattern.

Instructions are given for head sizes 18” (46 cm), 21” (53 cm), and 23” (58 cm). These correspond to child, small adult and medium-large adult sizes.

Fingering weight yarn.
The sample was knitted with Jubilee Yarn Galaxy Fantasy/Knit Picks Chroma fingering.
BC: (background color), FC: (forest color)
Size 18” (46 cm), BC 42 yds (38 m), FC 85 yds (78 m)
Size 21” (53 cm), BC 48 yds (44 m), FC 105 yds (96 m)
Size 23” (58 cm), BC 55 yds (50 m), FC 120 yds (110 m)

Forests predominated in the J.R.R. Tolkien trilogy, the Lord of the Rings. One of the most ancient forests on mythical Middle-earth at that time, Fangorn Forest was on the edge of the Misty Mountains and was just a mere remnant of the vast forest that it once was. It was the last refuge of those giant forest guardians called the Ents, and was a haunted and frightening old forest filled with many strange and sometimes bad-tempered spirits. The forest was named after its chief guardian, Fangorn, the oldest surviving Ent upon Middle-earth. Fangorn’s name meant “Treebeard”, and this was how he was known to the hobbits Pippin and Merry, after they stumbled into Fangorn Forest while escaping from marauding orcs.