A Simple Hat with a Handful of Purls

I am not generally a person who minds doing a bit of ribbing at the beginning of a project. Whether it’s a cuff up hat or top down socks, a little bit of ribbing sets the stage and often plays an important role in ensuring a project fits right and stays where it’s supposed to.

But not all ribbing is essential, and sometimes a curled hem on a stockinette stitch project is a wanted touch, not a frustration.

Still, a little bit of purling can give a project a bit more personality, as it does in the Purl Joy Hat from Kamaca Champion. With just six purl stitches per round, this hat gets a fun wedge shape that continues into the decreases at the top of the hat.

It’s a cool effect that works well if you wear the hat with the stockinette side or the reverse side out.

The hat is worked in worsted weight yarn, and as shown uses only about 50-80 grams of yarn, or 108-135 yards, 99 to 123 meters. You could definitely make it with some leftovers from another project, or throw in stripes or color blocking if you want to use more of your leftovers.

If you check out the project gallery on Ravelry you’ll see that it looks pretty great in a multicolored yarn, too. You might even grab a couple of lighter weight yarns to hold together for a totally different look. So many options!

The pattern is available on Ravelry.

If you’re looking for more hat patterns to knit for that colder weather that you know is going to be here before we know it, I actually did a whole roundup of hat knitting patterns using worsted weight yarn leftovers (though of course you can start them with a fresh ball, too, if you’ve got one handy).

[Photo: Kamaca Champion]

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One great thing to knit when the weather is warm (or honestly any other time) is dishcloths and washcloths. They are fun and easy projects and a great way to play with new skills. Pretty washcloths make cleaning a tiny bit more fun, and they’re great to have on hand as a quick addition to a store-bought gift.

The Daisy Delight Dishcloth from Yarnspirations is a fun one for using leftover bits of green in your cotton yarn stash. What looks like the bottom in the picture is actually the left side as you knit it, and each little color section is worked with its own ball of yarn, intarsia style.

That’s a little fiddly for a washcloth, but the effect is cute, and it’s a simple way to learn the basics of intarsia knitting (as well as reading a chart) if you don’t already have those skills.

One the knitting is done, you add the flowers with a bit of lazy daisy embroidery, which is really easy to do even if you’re not that into embroidery. You could also potentially add flowers in duplicate stitch if you’d rather.

This may be the most work you’ve put into a dishcloth, but isn’t it adorable? It would be fun to use as a hand towel through the spring and summer, and if you already have some leftover green yarn from other projects it should be pretty easy to do.

You could also take this same concept and make it different colors. All dark green stems with stars on top might be reminiscent of Christmas trees, or brown with daisy stitch on top in different colors could be trees in the fall.

However you stitch it, this looks like a fun little project for knitters who are comfortable with intarsia and reading charts or who are ready to try those skills.

You can grab the free pattern from Yarnspirations.

[Photo: Yarnspirations]

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