Autumn Leaves Knit Hat Pattern
This stunning hat knitting pattern is just what you need to ring in autumn.
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There is nothing more special than when the weather starts to chill, the leaves start to change, and you can whip out a knit hat for the first time in months. The Autumn Leaves Knit Hat Pattern is the perfect first hat for autumn, sporting seasonal colors and a trendy slouch. The gathered stitches featured in this knitted hat pattern offer an appealing texture to this hat, and the technique is easy enough to master after just a little bit of practice. Since this hat is knit with DK weight yarn, it offers a lovely drape and looks like something you could buy at a boutique.
Knitting Needle Size7 or 4.5 mm, 8 or 5 mm, Circular Knitting Needles, Double-Pointed Knitting Needles (DPNs)
Yarn Weight(3) Light/DK (21-24 stitches to 4 inches)
Gauge18 sts x 24 rows = 4" (10.2cm) in pat st using size 8 needle. Save time, check your gauge.
Finished SizeAdult Small (Medium, Large) - Height: 9½" (24.1cm). Circumference at brim: 15½ (17¾, 20)" [39 (45, 51) cm]
Materials List
- Willow Yarns™ Drift (70% superwash wool/30% rayon from bamboo; 100g/284yd) - 730267-0100 Sandbar (all sizes 1 ball)
- US size 8 (5mm) 16" circular needle or size needed to obtain gauge
- US size 8 (5mm) dpn
- US size 7 (4.5mm) 16" circular needle
- Stitch markers
- Tapestry needle
Instructions
Notes
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GS (Gathered Stitch): Insert right-hand needle underneath all 5 slipped yarns from bottom to top. K through next st on needle and pass the needle back through and underneath the 5 slipped yarns. This is not an inc.
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Tam is worked in the rnd from the bottom up on a circular needle until the crown, then continues to end on dpn.
Hat
CO 72 (80, 92) sts using size 7 circular needle. Pm and join to work in the rnd, being careful not to twist work.
Work in seed st as follows:
Rnd 1 (RS): *K1, p1; rep from * to last st.
Rnd 2: *P1, k1; rep from * to last st.
Rep Rnds 1-2 six more times. Change to size 8 circular needle.
Rnd 15: Work 2 (2, 4) sts in pat, M1, *work 4 (4, 5) sts in pat, M1; rep from * to last 2 (2, 3) sts, work in pat to end—90 (100, 110) sts.
Rnd 16: K
Rnd 17: *K5, sl 5 sts wyif; rep from * to end.
Rnd 18: K.
Rep Rnds 17-18 three more times and then Rnd 17 once more.
Rnd 26: K7, *GS, k9; rep from * to last 3 sts, GS, k2.
Rnd 27: *Sl 5 sts wyif, k5; rep from * to end.
Rnd 28: K.
Rep Rnds 27–28 three more times and then Rnd 27 once more.
Rnd 36: K2, *GS, k9; rep from * to last 8 sts, GS, k7.
Rep Rnds 17-36 twice more.
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Crown Shaping
Change to dpn when necessary.
Rnd 1: *Sl 5 wyif, ssk, k1, k2tog; rep from * to last st—72 (80, 88) sts.
Rnd 2: K.
Rnd 3: *Sl 5 wyif, k3; rep from * to last st.
Rep Rnds 2-3 three more times.
Rnd 10: *Ssk, GS, k2tog, sl 3 wyif; rep from * to last st—54 (60, 66) sts.
Rnd 11: K.Rnd 12: K3, sl 3 wyif; rep from * to last st.
Rep Rnds 11-12 three more times.
Rnd 19: K4, *GS, k5; rep from * to last 2 sts, GS, k1.
Rnd 20: *K3tog, k3; rep from * to last st—36 (40, 44) sts.
Rnd 21: K.Rnd 22: *K1, k3tog; rep from * to last st—18 (20, 22) sts.
Rnd 23: K. -
Finishing
Using a tapestry needle, draw up all lps and fasten off. Weave in ends.
Abbreviations
- beg
- begin/beginning
- CO
- Cast On
- dpn
- double pointed needles
- Inc
- Increase
- k2tog/k3tog
- knit 2 stitches together/knit 3 stitches together
- lps
- loops
- m1
- Make 2 stitch
- ssk
- slip, slip, knit these 2 stitches together - a decrease is made
- pm
- place marker
- sl
- slip
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