Couldn’t resist this beautiful pattern! I bought it immediately, and ordered the yarn too!
Woo hoo!

The first fairisle hat I made was a bit tight (big head, tight tension) but this was made on bigger needle, even though it had the same number of stitches.

I altered the colours slightly and left out the palest, as I felt there wasn’t enough contrast and it disappeared into the background colour.

I also adjusted chart D and E.
I decided to chart out decreases based on a 24 pattern repeat rather than 18 and also almost completely changed the motifs for the decreases too.
I’m happy with how it turned out, even if there is too much white space just below my adjusted decreases.

I left it to soak for 20 minutes, ‘spun it off ‘ in the salad spinner, then stuffed it with bubble wrap to shape it while it dries.

Fingers crossed it will have relaxed enough to fit me… pre blocking it was far too small.