Knitting Jenny Pattern 81: Fair Isle Inspired Ski Hat

Knitting Jenny Pattern 81: 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. Or, wear a Knitting Jenny ski hat while rambling through the countryside. Or, wear a Knitting Jenny ski hat in the mountains and as après-ski wear that combines comfort with elegance. 

Knitting Jenny Pattern 81 includes knitting patterns, motifs, and instructions in the following inclusive formats:

• Color Chart
• Grayscale Chart
• Grayscale Inverse Chart
• Written Instructions
• Illustrations

The color charts and written instructions guide the stranded colorwork knitting clearly. 

Additionally, grayscale designs are included to enable the knitter to envision personal color preferences for Knitting Jenny Pattern 81, by seeing the chart and motifs alone, in grayscale, without color distraction.

Firstly included is a grayscale chart, which is a black-and-white representation of the color chart. 

Secondly included is a grayscale inverse chart, which is a white-and-black representation of the black-and-white chart.

Knitting Jenny Pattern 81 features 5 colors of Jamieson’s of Shetland brand Spindrift wool, which is a 2 ply jumper weight yarn in 100% Shetland wool. 

Alternately, use fingering weight or a 2 ply equivalent to a 4 ply. 

The following tools are suggested for the patterns. 

• 2.0mm knitting needles (for the brim ribbing)
• 3.0mm 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 81 includes instructions for two design options for the brim ribbing:

• Standard Brim Ribbing
• Folded Brim Ribbing (featured on the front cover)

Knitting Jenny Pattern 81 creates a medium size hat, which fits an adult head. Additional instructions are included for size customization.

The gauge is:

• 34 stitches and 40 rows to 4 inches (10 centimeters) over the stranded colorwork pattern, knit circularly with 3.0mm knitting needles, after washing, blocking, drying.

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

The book includes 11 illustrations and 34 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.