Garter Brim Hat Knitting Pattern

Garter Brim Hat Knitting Pattern by Plymouth Yarn

Project Overview

The Garter Brim Hat is a one-size-fits-most adult knitting pattern designed by Plymouth Yarn. This downloadable PDF pattern creates a classic hat featuring a distinctive textured brim and smooth crown, perfect for knitters seeking a straightforward yet visually interesting project.

What Is Being Made

This pattern produces a warm, wearable adult hat with a unique construction. The design combines a textured garter stitch brim with a smooth stockinette stitch crown, creating visual and tactile contrast. The finished hat fits most adult head sizes and is worked in the round from the bottom up.

Materials Required

• Yarn: 1 ball of Plymouth Yarn EncoreMega
• Needles: 16-inch circular needle in size 15, plus double-pointed needles in size 11 or 13
• Notions: 1 stitch marker

Gauge and Sizing

The pattern is worked to a gauge of 2 stitches equals 1 inch over stockinette stitch on size 15 needles. The hat begins with a cast-on of 40 stitches and is designed as one size to fit most adults, with a total length of 6 inches before decreasing.

Knitting Techniques and Stitches

This pattern employs fundamental knitting techniques suitable for intermediate crafters. The construction method uses circular knitting, which eliminates the need for seaming and creates seamless, professional results.

Garter Stitch Brim: The hat begins with 11 rounds of garter stitch, created by alternating purl rounds and knit rounds. This textured stitch creates a reversible fabric with horizontal ridges that lie flat and provide visual interest at the brim edge.

Stockinette Stitch Crown: After the garter stitch brim is complete, the pattern transitions to stockinette stitch, worked by knitting every round on circular needles. This smooth, classic stitch creates the main body of the hat and provides a clean canvas for the hat's shape.

Decrease Shaping: The crown shaping employs seven rounds of strategic decreases using the knit-two-together technique. Each decrease round reduces the stitch count progressively, beginning with K6, k2tog repeats and continuing through K5, K4, K3, K2, and K1 combinations before final decrease rounds. This graduated approach creates a smooth, fitted crown that tapers to a neat closure point. Double-pointed needles are introduced when the circular needle becomes too large to accommodate the remaining stitches comfortably.

Finishing: The pattern concludes by cutting the yarn, threading the tail through remaining stitches, pulling tight to secure, and weaving in all ends for a polished appearance.

Pattern Details

• Cast-on: 40 stitches, joined in the round with a stitch marker
• Brim: 11 rounds of garter stitch (alternating knit and purl rounds)
• Body: Stockinette stitch worked in the round until 6 inches total length
• Crown shaping: 7 decrease rounds using knit-two-together decreases
• Finishing: Yarn threaded through final stitches and secured

This pattern is offered free with yarn purchase from Plymouth Yarn and represents design F307 from their Design Studio collection.