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Bear Ears Hat Knitting Pattern

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I’m pretty sure it’s impossible to resist the cuteness of a hat with animal ears on it. Whether for little ones or even adults, adding ears to a hat just ramps up the cuteness factor, and it’s really not any more difficult and doesn’t take much longer to add ears to the top of a hat.

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When my kid was younger I made hats that looks like bears, cats and bunnies (and of course I made a version of a cat hat for adults, too). Ears are a great little detail that makes a plain hat that much cuter. And there’s something about little kids in hats with ears that seems to make both the kid and the hat extra cute.

This bear ears hat knitting pattern from Fox & Pine Stitches uses super bulky yarn and is sized for newborns, 0-3 months, 3-6 months, 6-12 months, 1-3 years and 4-12 years (though the same size hat would fit a 4 year old and a 12 year old quite differently; check the head measurement against the child you’re knitting for to make sure it will fit).

This little hat would be so cute to knit for a pregnancy announcement and to use in a newborn photo shoot, or make them for all the kids in your family for super cute holiday photos. And of course you could add the same style of ears to a bulky hat for any age to make coordinating head gear for everyone in the family.

The pattern is available for free from Fox & Pine Stitches.

Looking for more cute projects for baby? Check out my collection of easy baby blanket knitting patterns and a more recent list of baby blanket knitting patterns. (Baby blankets are my favorites, but hats are great to knit for babies, too, and you can always make both for a super sweet and thoughtful gift!)

[Photo: Fox & Pine Stitches]

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Classic Dishcloth Knitting Patterns

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.