Hat Knitting Pattern

Silk & Suri Hat in Blue Sky Fibers Brushed Suri & Alpaca Silk

What Is Being Made

This is a beginner-level knitted hat designed to fit most adults, featuring a ribbed brim and stockinette stitch crown. The hat showcases a two-color construction using contrasting yarns: Blue Sky Brushed Suri and Blue Sky Alpaca Silk. The finished hat measures 18 inches in circumference at the brim when stretched, and 22 inches in circumference at the crown when unstretched, creating a fitted, comfortable fit for most head sizes.

Techniques Used

This pattern employs fundamental knitting techniques suitable for beginners. The construction begins with a cast-on of 100 stitches using a smaller circular needle, worked in the round to create a seamless tubular fabric. The brim is worked flat in ribbed pattern, a fundamental technique that creates elasticity and helps the hat hug the head comfortably. The crown transitions to stockinette stitch, the most basic knit stitch pattern, worked in the round on a larger needle. The pattern incorporates decreasing techniques to shape the crown, progressing from knit-two-together decreases worked strategically around each round, ultimately transitioning from circular needles to double-pointed needles as the stitch count diminishes. The pattern concludes with finishing techniques including weaving in ends and blocking.

Stitches Used

• Ribbed Pattern: Alternating knit and purl stitches (K1, P1) worked over a multiple of 2 stitches, creating vertical columns of texture in the brim
• Stockinette Stitch (St st): The primary stitch for the crown, created by knitting all stitches in one round and purling all stitches in the next round when working flat, or simply knitting every round when working in the round
• Knit Two Together (K2tog): A right-leaning decrease used strategically throughout the crown shaping to gradually reduce stitches and form the hat's tapered top

Materials

This pattern requires two premium natural fiber yarns from Blue Sky Fibers. Blue Sky Brushed Suri is used as the main color, with one 50-gram hank providing 142 yards. Blue Sky Alpaca Silk serves as the contrasting color, with one 50-gram hank providing 146 yards. The photo example shows the hat in Earl Grey #905 (main color) and Ice #113 (contrasting color). Needles required include a Size 5 (3.75mm) 16-inch circular needle for the ribbed brim, a Size 9 (5.5mm) 16-inch circular needle for the crown, and a Size 9 (5.5mm) set of double-pointed needles for the final crown shaping. Additional notions include a stitch marker for tracking round beginnings and a tapestry needle for finishing. The pattern achieves a gauge of 18 stitches and 20 rows over 4 inches when worked in stockinette stitch with the larger needles in the main color yarn.