Knitting Jenny Pattern 74: Fair Isle Inspired Ski Hat

Knitting Jenny Pattern 74: Fair Isle Inspired Ski Hat features a classic, seamless design that fits close to the head, with triangular segments converging at the crown. 

Knitting Jenny ski hats are similar in styling and fit to a variety of traditional head-hugging hats, including the beanie, skull cap, toque, toorie, watch cap, woolly hat, and Monmouth cap.

Knitting Jenny ski hats are a stylish way of keeping warm on a long walk in the city. Wear a Knitting Jenny ski hat while rambling through the countryside. Wear a Knitting Jenny ski hat in the mountains during a long day skiing on the slopes or as après-ski wear that combines comfort with elegance.

Knitting Jenny Pattern 74 includes knitting patterns, motifs, and instructions in the following inclusive formats:

• Color Charts
• Grayscale Charts
• Written Instructions
• Illustrations

The color charts and written instructions guide the stranded colorwork knitting clearly. Additionally, grayscale charts are also included to enable the knitter to envision personal color preferences, by seeing the chart and motifs alone, in grayscale, without color distraction.

The pattern utilizes 100% pure Shetland wool from the company, Jamieson and Smith, also known as Shetland Wool Brokers. The pattern requires four colors of natural, un-dyed Shetland Supreme 2 ply jumper weight wool (or any fingering weight or 2 ply equivalent to a 4 ply).

The following tools are suggested for the patterns. 

• 2.5mm knitting needles (for the brim ribbing)
• 3.25mm knitting needles (for the stranded colorwork)

The ski hat is knit circularly, and is constructed as follows: cast on, knit the brim ribbing, increase, knit the stranded colorwork of the head, then systematically decrease at the crown.

Knitting Jenny Pattern 74 creates a medium size hat, which fits an adult head. Additional instructions are included for size customization.

The gauge (or tension) is:

• 32 stitches and 38 rows to 4 inches (10 centimeters) over the stranded colorwork pattern, knit circularly with 3.25mm knitting needles, after washing, blocking, drying.

The book includes a discussion of Color Dominance to support consistent, uniform stitch definition. 

The book includes 12 illustrations and 33 pages. 

The book is intended to be read electronically, in consideration of the environment.

Published in the United States in 2025 by Mall & Mall Press, a publishing imprint of Mall & Mall LLC.

The book is delivered as an immediate digital download in PDF format and therefore cannot be returned, exchanged, or refunded.