This fair isle hat is a relatively straightforward knit and is a great first fair isle project if you’ve never tried the technique before. The floats are never that long and the color changes frequently enough to keep your interest.

In order to complete this hat you’ll want to be comfortable with knitting in the round, fair isle techniques and SSK decreases (though you can use K2tog if you want). You’ll need about 100y of the main color (grey in the pattern shown) and 50y each of the contrasting colors (black and white).

FYI: I’m a pretty loose knitter, so keep an eye out on your gauge! As written it fits me really well (an average adult male head at 22.5”).