Here you are – my first free knitting pattern!
This hat involves a technique called double-knitting – basically knitting two layers at the same time. You end up with a double-thickness hat, so one that will be lovely and warm and toasty. The hat is also reversible. If you’ve never tried double knitting before, give it a go – this pattern starts off gently with some easy non-patterned rounds to get you started before moving into the rectangular patterns.
There are lots of descriptions/instructions and a photo-tutorial to help you with decreasing for the crown.
10 August 2011 – Here’s a link to a tutorial about double knitting from the Happy Seamstress – I thought it explained the technique clearly and the fact that it used the same colours as my rectangly hat was just a bonus!
A big thank you to Kat, who you can find on her blog: http://creativepopoffs.blogspot.com/ – if she hadn’t encouraged me to write up the pattern and been a superbly helpful test knitter I would never have got round to doing it!
Click to download the pdf file: Rectangly Hat Pattern – pdf file
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Hello Catherine,
Thank you for the lovely pattern.
I’m going to try it in a worsted weight, as I don’t have any DK currently. My daughter would love the colours that you chose for your hat, so I’ll have to let her have a go at the pattern as well.
Regards,
Margo
Thanks Margo – my test knitter used Patons Angora Bamboo which is labelled up as a worsted weight yarn and she got the same gauge/size as I did. Let me know how you get on and I’d love to see a photo when it’s done!
I love this hat! I’ve never tried double knitting so I’m really excited to try. Thank you for the pattern, I think I’ll give it a go this weekend. I was looking for some really good warm patterns for charity knitting and I think this might be the winner.
Let me know how you get on – leave me a comment if you get any problems!
YAY!!! I just made a blog post about you posting the pattern. I see it has already been queued 30 times!
Now it just needs to cool down so that I can wear mine.
Thanks again for a wonderful pattern!
Just wanted to Thank You for sharing your skills and tell you I finished my Rectangly for my son and had a blast knitting it!
Hey
Very nice Pattern thank you
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