This pattern is no longer available. We’d like to thank Lucy Neatby for her clever designs for our (previous) RCY Hat Trick and Touchdown yarn lines. Lucy is a prolific and talented designer. You can see more of her work on her design page, here.

Ancient Arts Yarn still makes Hat Trick and Touchdown yarns. Simply visit their website and do a search for each of these hockey- and football-inspired yarns.

It’s every hockey fan’s duty to proudly display their true colours. Keep warm and cheer on with the Breakaway Beanie!

This hat is quickly cast on at the top and worked down, so you can make it fit perfectly on any head. You just continue the increases in sequence until the hat is large enough for the wearer. Can’t measure the head your beanie is intended for? Lucy gives sizing instructions so that you can make Breakaway Beanies for every fan in your life: from baby to adult. Lucy’s beanie (shown above) is knit in River City Yarn’s Hat Trick in Calgary’s colours.

You’ll need 2.5 mm needles for working a small circumference (crown/top of the hat) in the round: use a set of 5 DPNs or a long circular for Magic Loop or 2 shorter circulars; and 3.0 mm needles for working (I-cord and brim/body of hat) in the round: (for all but the Baby size), a 40cm / 16 inch circular works for the body of the hat. For the Baby size, a set of 5 DPNs or a long circular for Magic Loop or 2 shorter circulars work for the remainder of the hat.