Berets are an immensely fun hat shape, full of opportunity. Babies are also fun and full of opportunity.
So why not put them together?
Difficulty level: Intermediate
wool worsted weightPopularity: 49% [?]
Hair doesn’t always cooperate. But knitting does.
Difficulty level: Easy
fingering weight stash yarn straight needlesPopularity: 57% [?]
Warm cables for cold heads and long attention spans.
Difficulty level: Intermediate
circular needles DK weight double point merinoPopularity: 72% [?]
Hat, head warming, for the purpose of.
An intricate hat pattern by men, for men.
Difficulty level: Advanced
circular needles double point sport weight woolPopularity: 85% [?]
That favorite pattern of craft fairs and silly aunties everywhere.
Difficulty level: Intermediate
circular needles cotton double point worsted weightPopularity: 71% [?]
A soft and warm winter hat with a complex, snowflakey look.
Difficulty level: Advanced
circular needles DK weight merinoPopularity: 66% [?]
Is it possible to have too many patterns for Christmas hats?
Nope.
Difficulty level: Intermediate
acrylic double point worsted weightPopularity: 93% [?]
Another gorgeous Santa hat, this one for grown-ups and without the fluffiness of yesterday’s.
Difficulty level: Intermediate
alpaca circular needles double point wool worsted weightPopularity: 74% [?]
A luxurious Victorian Santa hat, specially designed for little heads.
Difficulty level: Intermediate
alpaca double point silk worsted weightPopularity: 85% [?]
For people who never watched the television series Firefly, obscure references to an enormous thug of a man wearing an orange pompom hat his mother knitted for him won’t mean much.
For people who did watch Firefly, I think the script said it best: “A man walks down the street in that hat, people know he’s not afraid of anything.”
Difficulty level: Intermediate
circular needles wool worsted weightPopularity: 44% [?]
A bold and bright baby hat, an easy introduction to Fair Isle-style color work.
Go nuts and choose the most radical palette your heart desires, because you won’t be able to do that when baby is 14 years old.
Difficulty level: Intermediate
merino sport weightPopularity: 49% [?]
Oh, how I hate when stores change their holiday decorations too early. I have never failed to be sad when I see a bat and a reindeer together. And now the moral dilemma is my own.
When to bring out seasonal patterns? When is it early enough that you can knit them up in time, but not so early that you’re struck with violent urges and stab me to death with your circular needles screaming, “No Hallowe’en stuff! I just got finished with Back to School!”
Difficulty level: Intermediate
circular needlesPopularity: 35% [?]
Every baby critter needs warmth and love, but premature babies need it most of all.
Here’s a sweet spiral baby hat to hug tiny heads.
Difficulty level: Intermediate
DK weight double point sport weightPopularity: 49% [?]
I have a confession to make: I have never, in the whole course of my life, finished a baby gift on time. I have delivered gifts late, and I’ve delivered them incomplete. (Bad knitiquette, I know. But I darned in the ends, if that helps!)
With this hat pattern, though, it’s all possible again. With this hat pattern, I may even be finished my gift… early.
Difficulty level: Intermediate
circular needles double point sport weight worsted weightPopularity: 48% [?]
It’s the circle of life, isn’t it? When I was a kid, I never appreciated a little hand-knitted hat. And now I’m sulking because my head is too big for one.
Difficulty level: Intermediate
circular needles worsted weightPopularity: 25% [?]
A gorgeous, satisfying and stylish hat pattern.
I’ve never been to Odessa, but this hat makes me want to book a ticket.
Difficulty level: Intermediate
cashmere circular needles DK weight double point merino sport weightPopularity: 21% [?]
A stashbuster and a gentleman, another great design from Smariek Knits.
When I grow up, I want a knitting brain like she has.
Difficulty level: Intermediate
circular needles stash yarn worsted weightPopularity: 36% [?]
I just realized what my life is lacking. I need more little heads to knit tassled hats for.
The person who pioneers a child-rental service will make a fortune.
Difficulty level: Intermediate
circular needles worsted weightPopularity: 25% [?]
Call me old-fashioned if you like, but nothing makes me coo like a baby hat. Except maybe the baby in the baby hat. We’ll call it a draw.
Difficulty level: Intermediate
double point sport weightPopularity: 40% [?]
A companion piece for Brooke’s Column of Leaves Scarf, slightly less technical and every bit as pretty.
Difficulty level: Intermediate
Popularity: 19% [?]
