This has been a super snowy year around my part of the world, and all that snow was the inspiration for the Sierra Snowcap – and maybe there was also my soft spot for snowflake hats! This pattern comes in headband and hat versions, and the hat is designed so that you can switch pompoms out.

The pattern includes some fun to hold your interest. First is finding your perfect poison color, that stripe in the middle making all the colors pop! Find something bright, even garish, to add a little zip. Then there’s the tubular cast-on and colorwork: just enough but not too much! You can knit these up quickly (the headband is particularly fast) from bits and pieces and have one in the mail to someone special!

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