Purple Ski Hat

Purple Ski Hat @013 by N. Banks

I am knitting hats for a charity in Maine, and this is one of the simple patterns I am making. It’s colorful and will warm in those cold Maine winters.

Materials:

1 main color and 5 others, in worsted weight yarn, I used purple as my main, red, cream, gold, navy, and brown as the 2 colors.

Size 5 & 7 circular knitting needles

1 row counter

10 stitch markers

Size 7 double pointed knitting needles

With main and using size 5 circular knitting needles, cast on 100

Rds 1 to 7: Knit 2, Purl 2

Next rounds: Change to size 7 needles and knit as follows:

3 rounds with color number 2 (red)

3 rounds with Main

3 rounds with color number 3 (cream)

3 rounds with main

3 rounds with color number 4 (gold)

 3 rounds with main

3 rounds with color number 5 (navy)

3 rounds with main

3 rounds with color number six (brown)

3 rounds with main

Top or crown of hat

Rd 1, with rd, knit and place markers after every 10^th stitch,

Rd 2: purl, slip markers as you come to them.

Rd 3: and rest of top, knit to 2 stitches before marker, knit 2 tog.

Repeat round 3 until you have 10 stitches left, change to size 7 double pointed needles needed. Cut yarn leaving a long tail, run yarn though remaining stitches and pull up tight, work ends of yarn in.

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