FREE BABY HAT PATTERN

Thanks to you persistent SOULS who have been visiting this site...
I have not gotten around to writing up that bootie pattern yet, so to say sorry I send you this pattern of the baby hat in the picture instead. It is not one I made up, it is from a knitting book I found in the Waiuku Library... and I am writing it from off the top of my head where my memory lives. Those of you who have faith in my recall may want to give it a go. 
Remember to use soft-as wool, silk, cashmere, alpaca or similar so that it doesn't itch, and there by make the Small who ends up wearing it SCREAM. Also i used at least the equivalent to a double knit weight yarn, and because I am a lazy knitter I probably knit it on size 5 or 5.5mm needles.  

 


The pattern goes something like this............
Instructions:
TO MAKE THE RIM:
Cast on 79/99 stitches [79 for little head, 99 for bigger head]. 
Knit in plain stocking stitch [1 row plain, 1 row purl] for several rows [30ish] until the curl of the brim is well and truly looking like a rim on the needles. 
Continue in stocking stitch for 9/10 more rows finishing on a purl row.

TO DECREASE/SHAPE CROWN OF HAT:
With right-side facing, begin the decrease rows by knitting every 9th and 10th stitches together along the row until you get to the end. 
Purl back (wrong side facing), until you get to the end.
Knit every 8th and 9th stitches together along the row until you get to the end.
Purl back (wrong side facing), until you get to the end.
Knit every 7th and 8th stitches together along the row until you get to the end.
Purl back (wrong side facing), until you get to the end.
Knit every 6th and 7th stitches together along the row until you get to the end.
Purl back (wrong side facing), until you get to the end.... etc. etc. etc

Continue this decrease pattern until 9 stitches remain. Keep knitting these last 9 stitches until they measure 6cm's. 

To cast off, continually knit 2together every row. until no stitches remain.

To sew up the seam:

Make sure you sew the rim on the inside of the curl, then pass the needle through the work to continue sewing a tidy seam on the inside of the hat, all the way up to the top of the sticky up stalk bit. Turn through and pop on small's head. 

Go outside and get some fresh air with small.

Designing Knits For Babies From Scratch

Hat and booties.

I wanted to knit some booties but didn't have a pattern so what I did was draw the shape of the bootie side-on, then drew what I thought it would look like as one flat piece. They're really quick to knit and a good pattern for beginners to use if I can just work out how to write out the pattern in a way that others can easily follow and understand. (I'll try to find the piece of paper I drew it on and post it later).

Get 7 PEOPLE together for a CLICK-STICK workshop. $15each FOR 3 HOURS to play around with or share designing ideas.
If you can find SEVEN people and a PLACE to do a workshop, then you get to be there for FREE. You set the theme. Spinning-Knitting, 
There is no reason why we couldn't draw a design for a garment or sculpture and then nut out between us how to go about making up a knitting pattern for it, whether it is for something functional or fanciful.  

PS. The hat is not my own design BUT the booties are.

Knitted Tea Cosy with Flip-Top Flower Motif Lid

Tea cosy from hand-spun wool

Playing around with odds and sods, function and form, art and aspect..... its all part of the adventurous learning curve for something bigger and grander....Like say a collaborative work for entering into one of the NZ'S many exhibitions?????

Filling in time till the winter projects get going

Commercially dyed hanks of yarn

I am not a big fan of commercial dyes and therefore am not very enthusiastic when it comes to producing dyed wool. However I have a large quantity of commercial wool yarns that I sometimes need to dye to a specific colour for certain projects. It would be great to get together to do some eco-dying specifically targeted towards hand-spun or commercial wool hanks.