Love and Football knitted hat pattern version 1.0

Love and Football version 1.0

knit pattern for a one size fits most hat with roll brim variation


Pattern created by: Megan McDermott, proprietoress of Colorful Tea
pattern finally typed on: November 10, 2007

Pattern recommended for: all knitters
Knitter should be comfortable with: working in a rib pattern, working with cable stitches, in the round as well as working with more than one colour and sewing seams to finish object.

Tools and notions:
(1) pair of US size 8 (metric 5mm) 16" circular needles
(1) set of US size 8 (metric 5mm) Double pointed needles
(1) cable needle (if you don't have one, you can use a spare DPN)
(1) stitch marker
(1) Tapestry needle
(1) Measuring tape
(4) knitting straight pins

Gauge: 5 sts per inch x 6 rows per inch on US size 8 (metric 5mm) needles using Cascade 220 (100% Peruvian highland worsted weight wool yarn)

MC: 1 skein of Cascade 220 in your choice of colour. I used Navy blue
CC: 1 skein of Cascade 220 in your choice of colour. I used Pumpkin orange.

Body of the hat:

CO 104 stitches in MC, working in a k4 p1 rib until end, join and place marker at beginning of round.
Work k4 p1 rib for 1 inch (2 inches if you're adding a roll brim). At the beginning of the next round, start working a basic 2x2 rope cable.
Note that if you're uncomfortable working a cable, you can omit it from the pattern.

work cable as follows:
Slip two stitches onto your cable needle, let these stitches fall away from you, knit two, knit the cable stitches, purl 1. repeat until end of round

Join CC, work in k4 p1 for 1 inch

Work cable for one round, rejoin MC

work even in k4 p1 until hat measures 5" or desired height from the CO edge

Top of the hat:
Using your DPNs, separate stitches into 4 groups of 26. Working with one group of 26 at a time, work them as follows:

knit across 26 stitches
purl 1, ssp, purl to end
knit, ssk, knit to end
repeat these two rows until there are 15 stitches remaining
knit even
purl even
repeat these two rows twice
Bind off
repeat this for the 3 remaining groups of 26.

Finishing:
Turn the hat inside out, join the side seams with your knitting straight pins. Using a tapestry needle and the MC yarn, sew up the seams until you reach the top. You'll be sewing up the top of the hat separately. Once the side seams are sewn up, for the top into an X shape and sew it up.

Weave in any loose ends and trim any excess yarns.

If you want to block your hat, do it now.

Done!

Knitterbio:
Megan McDermott is a Work at Home Mom who's brand new to the Coeur D'Alene area. She owns a small e-commerce business called Colorful Tea and she loves knitting, being a "crunchy mom", creatively working in a caffeinated blur and living life in colour.

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This pattern is for personal use only, not for commercial use. If you'd like to use this pattern for commercial use, please feel free to e-mail me at colourfultea@gmail.com to inquire about licensing.

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