Simple Colorwork Hat: A First Two-Color Band
A plain worsted-weight beanie with one small stranded band above the brim: a 4-stitch, 7-round chart with short floats, written out round by round for a first try at colorwork.
Knitted hat patterns and guides for beginners
Hat patterns with stripes, simple colorwork, and texture, plus guides to reading a pattern and choosing a stitch.
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A plain worsted-weight beanie with one small stranded band above the brim: a 4-stitch, 7-round chart with short floats, written out round by round for a first try at colorwork.
A fitted two-color beanie with even 4-round stripes, plus clear instructions for changing colors, carrying the unused yarn and smoothing the jog where each stripe starts.
A textured worsted-weight hat with a 1x1 ribbed brim, a seed stitch body and a simple stockinette crown, using only knit, purl and one decrease.
Stockinette, garter, ribbing and seed stitch all use only knits and purls, but each makes a different hat fabric. Here is how they stretch, curl and fit.
A plain-language walk through a hat knitting pattern: the information block, sizes in parentheses, abbreviations, repeats, stitch counts and charts.