How To Knit A Santa Hat

Santa Hat (F2)

Easy Knit Santa Hat

This super easy Santa hat pattern is really a prepare of instructions that work for whatsoever size hat on any size needles with whatever size wool. If y'all use chunky yarn and big needles you tin can be done surprisingly quickly.

A printable version of this pattern is bachelor.

Yous volition need:

matching cerise and white yarn (e.yard. both cable weight)
carte du jour (or pompom maker)
knitting needles (of a suitable size for the yarn)
tapestry needle
pair of scissors

Instructions:

(A listing of abbreviations is available.)

Trim

Measure out the circumference of the affair you want the hat to fit. This might exist your head, a friends caput, a cuddly toy, a shampoo bottle... I don't know your life. Write down the circumference for afterward.

Measure the object

Bandage on stitches in white until they measure virtually one sixth of the circumference when stretched out along the needle. It is not at all necessary to be authentic here. When you fold over the trim of the hat you lot'll be able to control how much of the white knitting you see. Just gauge how many stitches you'll demand. Stretch them out and measure out. Drop a couple/ knit a few more if you lot like. Washed.

Stretch and measure the cast ons.

Knit every row until the fabric is the same length every bit the circumference you wrote downwards. If in doubtfulness wrap your knitting effectually the matter to check it fits. When information technology does, cast off.

Measure the length of the trim.

Chapeau

Garter stitch (aka knit-every-row sew) is made up of ridges that look like this...

Garter Ridges.

What nosotros're aiming for in this step is to get as many red stitches on the needles as in that location are ridges on a unmarried side of the white trim. You lot can either count the ridges and cast on that number in cherry-red, or, if you're like me and Detest SEWING UP, you tin can slip one loop from the end of each ridge onto a needle and knit it in scarlet.

Pick up from trim.

The hat pattern is formed of four rows.

Row 1: k –
Row ii: k –
Row iii: k2tog, 1000 –
Row 4: k2tog, m –

Echo these rows until there are only 5 or half dozen stitches remaining on the needles. Bandage off.

Making Up:

Making up.

If you didn't option up stitches at the first of the hat section y'all demand to sew the bottom of the chapeau to the edge of the trim. If yous did option upward stitches move straight to adjacent stride.
Fold the hat in one-half along information technology'southward length. Sew together the red edges together with ruby and run up the white edges together with white.
Fold the edge of the trim upward and over to cover the horizontal join.
Make a white pom pom and attach information technology to the tip of the hat.
Sew in whatsoever remaining loose ends.
Congratulations, the chapeau is ready to wear. Make certain the seam is at the back where information technology will be well hidden by the folds of the hat.