Recently, knitting made big headlines when the folks at Jimmy Beans Wool yarn bombed at the Sundance Film Festival to promote a new movie starring Hugh Jackman and Taron Edgerton called Eddie the Eagle - but it didn’t stop there! Eddie mania quickly swept the social media world as knitters everywhere shared photos and videos from the event, and continued to engage in Eddie antics such as this video of the film’s stars coaching two “stitching athletes” in a thirty-second knitting competition!

The Jimmy Beans crew designed two free patterns for fans to knit or crochet their own version of the Eddie hat, which was inspired by the actual sweater worn by Eddie’s mom. We decided to knit our own version using the free knitting pattern and a skein of our Certified Organic Worsted Cotton yarn in #614 Drift; using a size 7 needle, we knit the Adult size M.

After knitting the hat, we used duplicate stitch to add the E and the wings using small amounts of #619 Tomato, #632 Mediterranean, and #638 Dandelion and the chart below.

You can learn more about Eddie the Eagle and the #iknitforeddie contest here.