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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Fall will be here before we know it, and that means there are holidays coming right behind where we might be entertaining at home. It’s always fun to have a hand knit touch in your home for other people to see, and if you’re going to be in the kitchen all day you might as well have some nice knit dish cloths to use.

I love this little plaid hand towel from Darling Jadore. Use a little bit of leftover cotton yarn from another project for the plaid portion. It looks like the horizontal stripes are worked as you knit and the vertical stripes are done with duplicate stitch, making this a quick and easy project even newer knitters can make.

Combine garter stitch and an easy eyelet pattern worked sideways to make the Annette Dish Towel from Cluck Cluck Boots, which is meant to be reminiscent of flour sack towels. It calls for DK weight yarn and you can work it in one color or two (or even three!).

Add a little more texture with this set of kitchen towels from Whileberry Creative. They’re mostly worked in garter stitch with borders in easy knit/purl patterns, and you can work them in sport or worsted weight yarn.

Two of Wands Shop has another cute allover knit and purl pattern they call the Seersucker Textured Tea Towel. It’s an easy repeating pattern worked in worsted weight yarn, and there’s a chart in the pattern you can use, but don’t have to, if you want to practice knitting from a chart.

The Classic Cloth dish towel from Handmade Home by Connie is another one that can use a little leftover yarn in a contrasting color, or you could color block it our use stripes throughout the pattern. This one uses worsted weight yarn and another easy repeating knit purl stitch pattern.

If you like to hang your towel on the oven handle or elsewhere but it’s always falling off, try the Stay Put kitchen towel from Fancy Step Knits. This project is worked in garter stitch and includes a hole partway through so you can pull the towel through itself over a rod or handle. Stripes are optional but a nice addition.

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