This super bulky ‘Echo Beanie’ is a quick and beginner friendly project. And it is much less complicated than it looks! This beanie uses slipped stitches to get those bold vertical lines. Since you will be alternating between two colors, you only knit with one color per round. I really loved seeing the two vertical columns knit up in contrasting colors. Color B seems to mirror the stitches from color A, hence the ‘Echo’ name.

I have included a few notes about sizing modifications and using more or less than two colors. Feel free to get creative with bold colors or even use lots of colors for a scrappy version. Also, with the two color
version, you will have enough yarn to make two beanies. I like to make the second one in reverse color order.

Gauge
Using US 15 (10.0mm) needles:
9 sts and 13 rows make a 4” (10cm) square in stockinette stitch, unblocked

Materials
76 total yards (125g/70m) of super bulky weight yarn (Suggested yarn: Malabrigo Rasta, Wool and the Gang Crazy Sexy Wool, We Are Knitters The Wool, Baah Yarn Mammoth)
Yardage breakdown:
Color A: 41 yards (68g/37m)
Color B: 25 yards (42g/23m)

US 13 (9.0mm) 16” circular needles
US 15 (10.0mm) 16” circular needles
US 15 (10.0mm) double pointed needles Stitch marker
Tapestry needle to weave in ends

Skills/stitches Required
Knit
Purl
Decrease stitches: k2tog, p2tog
Knitting in the round on circular needles and dpns
Slipped stitches, with yarn in the back