I had chosen to come back to Norway in time for Christmas, but in doing so, I have willingly chosen to freeze my butt off. So to counter this, I have started knitting again! made a quick trip to Stoff og Stil, with no real plan in mind upon what I was going to make except that it was going to be in colorwork. The thought process went from leg warmers, to a scarf, to a blanket and just when I thought I had settled on making leg warmers, I started knitting another beanie. I whipped up this colorwork knit beanie in a couple of days, just making up the pattern as I went along. I had a small amount of grey left over from a previous project and I wanted to use that up. I’ve also wanted to making something in a colorwork for a while now but haven’t quite gotten round to it. I’ve taken the liberty to write down the pattern as I went along. Hopefully I’ve gotten everything right. If not, just let me know and I’ll make the adjustments to the pattern. 
The printable PDF can be found here… COLOURWORK BEANIE
The Pattern:
BODY
| Cast on 120 stitches – using.3.25mm circular needles | |
| Row 1 | K2, P2 (W) |
| Repeat for 15 rows | |
| Transfer work to 4mm circular needles | |
| Row 16 | Knit (W) |
| Row 17 | Knit (W) |
| Row 18 | K2 (W) *K1 (Y), K4 (W), rep from * to last 3 stitches, K1 (Y), K2 (W) |
| Row 19 | Knit (W) |
| Row 20 | K1 (Y) *K1 (W), K1 (B), K1 (W), K1 (Y) rep from * to last 4 stitches, K1 (W), K1 (B), K1 (W), K1 (Y) |
| Row 21 | Knit (W) |
| Row 22 | Same as Row 18 |
| Row 23 | Knit (W) |
| Row 24 | K1 (B) *K3 (Y), K2 (B), rep from * to last 4 stitches, K3 (Y), K1 (B) |
| Row 25 | Knit (Y) |
| Row 26 | K1 (W) *K3 (Y), K2 (W), rep from * to last 4 stitches, K3 (Y), K1 (W) |
| Row 27 | Knit (Y) |
| Row 28 | K2 (Y) *K1 (B), K4 (Y), rep from * to last 3 stitches, K1 (B), K2 (Y) |
| Row 29 | Knit (Y) |
| Row 30 | K1 (B), K1 (Y) |
| Row 31 | Knit (Y) |
| Row 32 | K1 (Y), K1 (W) |
| Row 33 | Knit (Y) |
| Row 34 | Knit (B) |
| Row 35 | Knit (B) |
| Row 36 | K (W) |
| Row 37 | K1 (Y), K1 (W) |
| Row 38 | Knit (W) |
| Row 39 | Knit (B) |
| Row 40 | Knit (B) |
| Row 41 | K2 (B), *K1 (Y), K9 (B), rep from * to last 8 stitches, K1 (Y), K7 (B) |
| Row 42 | *K7 (B), K1 (Y), rep to last 2 stitches, K2 (B) |
| Row 43 | Knit (B) |
| Row 44 | Repeat row 41 |
| Row 45 | Repeat row 42 |
| Row 46 | Repeat row 43 |
| Row 47 | Repeat row 41 |
| Row 48 | K1 (Y), K1 (B) |
| Row 49 | K1 (B), K1 (Y) |
| Row 50 | Knit (Y) |
| Row 51 | K2 (Y) *K1 (W), K4 (Y), rep to last 3 stitches, K1 (W), K2 (Y) |
| Row 52 | Knit (Y) |
| Row 53 | K1 (W) *K3 (Y), K2 (W) rep to last 4 stitches, K3 (Y), K1 (W) |
| Row 54 | Knit (W) |
| Row 55 | Knit (W) |
CROWN
| Row 56 | K10 (W), K2tog (B) – 110 stitches |
| Row 57 | K4 (W) *K2 (B), K8 (W), rep to last 6 stitches, K2 (B), K4 (W) |
| Row 58 | K9, k2 tog (W) – 100 stitches |
| Row 59 | K2 (W), K2 (Y) |
| Row 60 | K8, K2tog (Y) – 90 stitches |
| Row 61 | K1 (B), K1 (Y) |
| Row 62 | K7, K2tog (Y) – 80 stitches |
| Row 63 | Knit (Y) |
| Row 64 | K6, K2tog (B) – 70 stitches |
| Row 65 | Knit (B) |
| Row 66 | K5 (B), K2tog (Y) – 60 stitches |
| Row 67 | Knit (B) |
| Row 68 | K4, K2tog (B) – 50 stitches |
| Row 69 | K4 (B), K1 (W) |
| Row 70 | K3, K2tog (B) – 40 stitches |
| Row 71 | Knit (Y) |
| Row 72 | K2, K2tog (B) – 30 stitches |
| Row 73 | Knit (Y) |
| Row 74 | K1 (W) K2tog (Y) – 20 Stitches |
| Row 75 | Knit (W) |
| Row 76 | K2tog (W) – 10 stitches |
- TIE OFF
- WEAVE IN ENDS
- ADD POM POM
The beanie looks like this before the pom pom was added… 
And here is the pom pom tutorial…
1. Place the start ends of the yarn in your hands. 2. start wrapping the yarn loosely around your hand. 3. Get a nice thick amount on your hand. 4. Carefully take the wrapped ball of yarn off and cut off an extra piece of yarn. 5. Tie the extra piece of yarn around the centre of the wrapped ball. Secure tightly. 6. Cut the closed loops of the yarn ball. 7. You should get a fairly messy pom pom. 8. Trim everything down to get a neater and tighter pom pom.
LOve <3 Yin xx
Every row is a knit row??? No purl? Doesn’t look like that in the picture. Please confirm! It’s not often I see a Fair Isle pattern without a chart. I hate charts! 😀 I would love to start this beanie and I think I could figure it our but please….let us know?
Hi Liz, I used a circular needle here which means that every stitch aside from the ribbing is a knit because you don’t have to turn the work. Once tou finish a row, you simply comtinue knitting the next row (it’s like magic, I love circular needles) – I hope that helps.
Will you please tell me the colors of yarn you used. I love these colors. Where did you buy your yarn?
Thank you. Lovely pattern with or without the pompom.
Thank you Brenda!
I bought the yarn from Stofg og Stil, fabric store. These are the links to the 3 colours I used:
https://www.stoffogstil.no/garn/garn/wool/garn-wool-sennepsgul
https://www.stoffogstil.no/garn/garn/wool/garn-wool-moerk-lilla
https://www.stoffogstil.no/garn/garn/wool/garn-wool-melert-lys-graa
so mustard yellow, navy blue (which apparently is dark purple in norwegian) and light grey.
I hope that helps! 🙂
Row 20 should have K2 (Y)–Like in the picture.
Row 42 should be k7(b) *k1(y) k9(b)* k1(y), k2(b)
Row 56 should be k9, k2tog
Wait, so we K2, P2 for 15 rows? The picture you show dosen’t look like it’s 15 rows of K2 P2, it looks like less.
I’m already at 10 rows and it already looks a lot longer than the photo.
Hey sorry for the incredibly late reply. I don’t manage this site as often as I used to, real like and all. Yes it was definitely 15 rows. It won’t be exact since you’re not using the exact same yarn that I am. I have realised over the years of knitting that not all 8ply yarns are the same. Also just realising i didn’t even write down what ply yarn I’d used.