10.20.2015

dirty doz: one day baby hat

Rad beanie for Switchblade!Madelinetosh Unicorn Tails- Neon Peach- Antler- Button Jar Blue- Edison Bulb Baby hats.

They're those things that you will get endlessly scolded for not putting on your baby, can be made with little to no material/time and for whatever reason THERE ARE NO PATTERNS FOR PLAIN OLD RIBBED ONES. I'm all about knitting bunny ears onto things and other ridiculously pointless endeavors but how can there possibly be a dearth of plain ribbed fingering weight baby hat patterns when there are literally thousands of baby hat patterns on ravelry? It's like most knitters seem to have a stash of rudely small balls of sock yarn leftovers from tons of projects and knitting something small with them would be the perfect way to accomplish many things knitters tend to value; stash busting, making space for more yarn, saving money to spend on more yarn, the general feeling of industriousness and self satisfaction that comes from making something useful from seemingly nothing. Baby hats seem a natural solution.

So here is my super rad, hi viz, color block baby beanie!

I wrote a pattern for a very cute, very plain, very easy and very leftover fingering weight friendly baby hat. It knit up in one day and will supposedly fit from newborn to about 5 months based on average baby head measurements (thank you google!). The stretchiness of 1x1 ribbing and the fold over brim being able to be adjusted will make it an easy one to grow with babe's rapidly growing head rather than knitting multiple hats. Another fun part? If you're not into using leftovers or don't have any, it's absolutely perfect for using four Madelinetosh Unicorn Tails which are inexpensive, come in really fun colors and are very soft aka baby approved. I used the ones I had leftover from this sweater. Also, double stranding is cool, I'd never done it before! Db likes how it came out so much he asked me to knit him one just like it. :) That's how you know something has turned out good!

Madelinetosh Unicorn Tails in Neon Peach, Antler, Button Jar Blue and Edison Bulb
Rad beanie for Switchblade!Madelinetosh Unicorn Tails- Neon Peach- Antler- Button Jar Blue- Edison Bulb And a progress shot just because I think the pic came out so nice. Rad beanie for Switchblade!Madelinetosh Unicorn Tails- Neon Peach- Antler- Button Jar Blue- Edison Bulb

2 comments:

  1. It's fabulous.
    Really neat and inventive.
    And soooooooo cute.

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  2. I love how you are totally not inhibited that there isn't the pattern you imagined in your head on the internets so you made one up yourself. Would be super interested in what you come up with if you decided to design some patterns yourself. Also, Unicorn Tails?! Just the name itself makes me want to collect them all :)

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