The Hat That Will Bring Your Baby To Tears
Edited to fix a couple mistakes in the pattern. Is anyone going to try this and tell me how it turned out?
I made this adorable hat last week! I’m not saying I’m so fabulous for making it or anything because my knitting powers are purely accidental. If I stumble upon the right pattern, accidentally buy just the right yarn, remember how to count stitches and the "higher-knitting-power" is appeased, then I can come up with something fabulous. It’s only happened twice. What about the rest of my knitting projects? Well. I basically spend a lot of time turning sweaters into blankets. I wish I had the photos to prove it. Unraveling a sweater that you spent 47,000 hours knitting is really quite fun. The yarn gets all curly kinky ; totally worth all that knitting and counting and ignoring your children.
If you would like one of these sweet hats for your own offspring or to give to someone else then here is the pattern. Please use some natural fiber yarn like cotton, wool or silk. If you make this hat out of acrylic yuck, I will personally come to your house and burn it. The hat, not your house.
Sweet Heart Hat
I used yarn with a gauge of 5 stitches per inch and size 6 needles.
Cast on 76 stitches.
Cast on 76 stitches.
Row 1 through 6 – Knit
7. Pearl
8. k5, (k2tog, yo, k1, yo, k2tog, k7) repeat till you get to the last 6 stitches, k6
9. P
10. k4, (k2tog, yo, k3, yo, k2tog, k5), repeat till last 5, k5
11. p
12. k3, k(2tog, yo, k5, yo, k2tog, k3) repeat till last 4, k4
13. p
14. k2 (k2tog, yo, k7, yo, k2tog, k1) repeat till last 3, k3
15. p
16. k1, (k2tog, (yo, k9, yo, k3tog) repeat 5 times, yo, k9, yo, k2tog, k2
17. p
18. k3, (yo, k2tog, k3, yo, k1, yo, k3, k2tog, yo, k1) repeat till last 2, k2
19. p
20. k3, (yo, k4tog, yo, k3) repeat to last four stitches. k4
21. p
22. k
23. p
24. k2, (k2tog, k5) repeat to end
25. p
26. k
27. p
28. k2, (k2tog, k4) repeat to last 5, k5
29. p
30. k
31. p
32. k2 (k2tog, k3) repeat to last 5, k5
33. p
34. k
35. p
36. k2 (k2tog, k2) repeat to last 4, k4
37. p
38. k2 (k2tog, k1) repeat to last 3, k3
39. p
40. k2, (k2tog) repeat to last 2, k2
41. p
42. k2tog, repeat to end
43. p
44. With 2 US6 double pointed needles and contrasting color, k1 row.
45. Slide these 7 sts to the opposite end of the same needle, place needle in left hand and bringing yarn firmly from last st to first st, k7sts.
46. Repeat this row until a tube of approx 5 inches has been worked.
Next row k2tog, k3tog, k2tog, cut yarn, thread end through rem 3 sts, pull up and secure.
Finish Join back seam. Tie top extension in a knot. Put it on your own baby and make sure you get a photo of the tears. Send it to me and I'll post it on my blog!
Disclaimer: I cannot guarantee that this pattern will work as I made it up as I went along and I jotted it down as I knitted. I’ll have to make another one this week to check the pattern.
Labels: Craft Projects, Sweet Little Troublemakers
posted by The Lazy Organizer @ 10:11 PM
5 Comments
5 Comments:
Hmmm...looks like a foreign language to me. Darling hat though!
Love the hat!
Everybody sing, "Getting knitty wit it. Nah nah nah nah hey"!
We have a knitters society here in Houston called, "Knittas Pleaze". That always makes me laugh.
Hey, not to upstage your self-proclaimed lousy knitting skills, nor do I wish in any way to imply that you're a better knitter than you say you are, but have you ever knit anything so awful that your child bursts into tears and has a panic attack when you make them wear what you've made for them? No one in my family will wear any sweaters I knit because no matter how loose I try to make the necks, they always manage to be way too tight to comfortably fit over anyone's head. When my son was small he'd scream, "NO! Not the ear biter!" and panic and hide whenever I tried to cram one of those suckers over his head. And even though my husband doesn't technically panic, per se, when he sees one of my sweaters coming, he will make ANY excuse to avoid wearing one! He actually told me once that he couldn't wear one as it made him look fat (he's a marathon runner- he couldn't look fat in a fat suit)! Your hat is adorable, but if I switched to knitting hats, I'd probably end up suffocating my entire family. Although how that's worse than slowly choking them to death, I'm not sure...
Victoria
Victoria, hey, it's not your fault if their heads are too big. With heads that big, they probably wouldn't suffocate in one of your hats!
I gave up on sweaters. I'm a strictly hat and blanket knitter now. I'm thinking of trying some Christmas stockings since they don't have to fit anyone. Heck, if you mess up, the kid just gets fewer or more presents than expected.
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