Available at Ravelry under this link.

The original version was purple, with purple swirls and brown details, but unhappy with it I knitted an alternate version where I swapped around the swirly colours, so that the main swirl was brown instead of the contrast in between. So, at Ravelry you can see both versions, but I am much happier with this version, and recommend it over the first edition!

Also, the only way I can get colourwork to look decent tensionwise is by putting the MC in my left hand and the CC in my right hand and knit Continental and English at the same time (if English is your preferred method you may want to switch hands).

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Size
20 inches. Stretches to fit a 22 inch head with lots of hair. Try bigger needles or additional rows at the end of the pattern repeat if you are bigger than that. And the reverse if you have less hair or head than me.

Material
- Tuva by Marks & Kattens (100% wool, 50 grams, 55 metres/60 yards), 1 skein purple (1941) and 1 skein brown (1934)
- needles, 5.5mm/US#9. I used two circulars because I lose DPNs like others lose mittens. I couldn’t find one circular needle that was long enough for the magic loop method, which I usually use for hats and the like, but whatever makes you happy.

Gauge
4,5 sts and 6 rows per inch or 18 sts and 24 rows per four inches/decimetre.

Directions
Cast on 88 sts with MC and work 8 rows of 2×2 ribbing. Follow up with 2 rows of stockinette stitch. Switch to CC, and k two more rows. Somewhere during these rows, remember to increase two stitches, for a total of 90 sts.

Work the chart from right to left, a total of six times for a full round. Only work it through once, though! (Unless you have a seriously long head…)

Work four rows of stockinette. On the next row, place a marker at the beginning of the round (if you haven’t already, I um, didn’t), [pm, k2tog, k 21, pm, k 22], repeat once.

Decrease row: [k2tog, k to two sts before marker, ssk], repeat four times for a full row.

Next row: K all.

Repeat these two rows until you have 2 sts between each marker. Pull the yarn through all of them. Fasten. Weave in ends. Tadaaaa!