Knitting Jenny Pattern 104: Icelandic Léttlopi Wool Ski Hat

Knitting Jenny Pattern 104: Icelandic Léttlopi Wool Ski Hat features an innovative cabled ribbing and a classic seamless design of stranded colorwork, with triangular segments converging at the crown to create a kaleidoscopic star effect. 

Knitting Jenny Pattern 104 features 3 shades of Ístex brand Icelandic lopi wool in the léttlopi weight, which is considered a worsted/Aran weight.

Knitting Jenny Pattern 104 is designed with Icelandic sheep wool, which contains special fiber properties to enable knitting yarn that is lightweight, warm, durable, breathable, and water resistant, the perfect textile combination for ski hats. 

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

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. Also, Knitting Jenny ski hats are ideal while hiking in the mountains and as après-ski wear that combines comfort with elegance. 

Knitting Jenny Pattern 104 includes knitting patterns, motifs, and instructions in the following inclusive formats:

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

The ski hat is knit circularly, and is constructed as follows: 

• Cast on, knit the brim, increase, knit the stranded colorwork of the head, then systematically decrease at the crown.

The following tools are suggested for the pattern. 

• 3.5mm knitting needles (for the brim ribbing)
• 5.0mm knitting needles (for the stranded colorwork)

The gauge for Knitting Jenny Pattern 104 is:

• 18 stitches and 24 rows to 4 inches (10 centimeters) over the stranded colorwork pattern, knit circularly with 5.0mm knitting needles, after washing, blocking, drying.

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

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

Knitting Jenny Pattern 104 creates an elastic and flexible ski hat that fits a size medium adult head with approximately 22 inches in head circumference. Instructions are included for size customization.

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

The book includes 12 illustrations and 27 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.