February 25, 2007...11:29 pm
a free hat pattern - one skein, one day wonder hat
Hi. This is a free hat pattern and is free to you under a creative commons license (listed in the pattern). There are actually two versions of this hat in the pattern. It’s also free for yarn shop owners to give out, but you might want to read it over first, because it’s my first pattern. I hope some day to actually be able to sell patterns, so I’d love feedback. This is meant to be a quick hat, but it still has a few nice details for a little bit of a challenge. It features cables, picot edging and some interesting decreases, all of which result in what I think is a pretty cute hat.
Note: The stitch repeat is 12, not 6, because of the decreases.
I would have liked to issue a child sized hat, but the only feedback I’ve gotten on head-size is that my friend’s four year old has a 20″ head. Given that that is a size for an average adult woman, you could probably cast on 96 stitches instead of 108 and go from there for a kid’s hat. I haven’t tried it yet though.
Here you go. Have fun. Push the “save a copy” button in the upper left-hand corner of your screen to save a copy to your computer. Print away and feel free to distribute the pattern freely. But please, don’t mess with my picture!
2/15: Author’s Note: A friend of mine has recently knit this hat and we think some errata are necessary. So I’m knitting the hat again following my own directions and will probably write up a nicer pattern with color pics and with more sizes.
5 Comments
February 26, 2007 at 9:08 am
Thanks!
Hmm, is it just me with the weird display on this new theme?? I see 4 columns, with the leftmost column being the post/comment column - all columns are the same width. Just looks a bit odd.
February 27, 2007 at 1:24 pm
Sweetie’s is 19″. But there’s a handy chart at http://www.yarnstandards.com/headsize.html that I found handy at one time. The new babies in our family do have 14″ heads as described in the chart, but both my head and my daughter’s must be on the large side… by age, according to the chart, she should have a 17″ or 18″ head, while my 23″ head is apparently larger than the average man’s. Who knew?
March 3, 2007 at 7:45 am
It’s cute. I’ve downloaded it for next time I’m in a hatty mood. : )
PS, head circumference is a very weird thing. My family all have large heads, apparently. But I’ve been surprised at how some hats I’ve knit and thought wouldn’t fit turned out to fit after all.
July 30, 2007 at 9:23 pm
This looks like a beautiful hat pattern, I would love to get it finished in a day. Thanks for sharing this pattern with me.
May 4, 2008 at 10:42 pm
If you do work out children’s sizes, I would list them both as an actual circumference as well as a size/age. It’d give people more options to figure out what they need. Head sizes are so variable.
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