The other day, I blogged about the
many hats I made for last
Christmas. I also used another couple of patterns to knit up some
winter hats.
This hat was super fun. I knit up a few in the 1-3 year old size for a some of my friends' babies. I used
this pattern from Bev's Country Cottage to knit them up. They were knit flat and seamed. I was really happy with the result.
This hat was knit up with bulky yarn using
this pattern that I found on ravelry. It was super easy, however if I
made it again I would have knit it a little longer, because it came out a
little short. I would have done more rows in the ribbing as well. Otherwise I guess I was happy with the result.
Tell me, what are your favorite hat patterns around the web?
~Colleen
Yesterday, I blogged about the hats that I gave out for Christmas gifts this year. I also gave out these fun mittens to match those hats (although I made far fewer of them). The pattern does not change for each size. Instead, you have to change the size of the needles, which does make the adult sizes a little less warm. You could of course just take the child size pattern and multiply it to make the size that you want for a warmer mitten.
You can knit them flat and knit them both at once on the same needles. All you have to do is knit one pulling from the center of the yarn skein and knit the other pulling from the outside of the skin. This is especially helpful when you are doing stripes, because you do not have to count as precisely (check out the photo below to see an example).
