Knit as a project for the Hats for Sailors group, this is a basic beanie made special with a color band worked with stranded knitting with very short floats. No need to fiddle with catching floats.

The pattern includes a simple 4 stitch/18 round chart as well as links to some helpful videos for 2-color knitting, weaving in ends, and how to avoid jogs when changing colors..

Looking for an easy-peasy color project? This is a simple pattern for anyone just learning to knit with more than one color. And a good option if you have balls of leftover yarn rolling around in your knitting basket. Only 3 colors are needed to knit the hat as shown: about 15 grams and 3 grams of contrast yarns and 35 grams of main color.