Easy (and Free!) Hat Knitting Patterns

If your budget is tight but you still need to keep warm, these free hat knitting patterns will get you there. These hats are easy to knit for newer knitters and will get your head cozy in no time.

Note: these are all worked in the round. If you’re not ready for that, check out my roundup of flat hat knitting patterns.

The Staple Stitch Knit Beanie from Premier Yarns is an easy, standard watchcap style knit hat. The tweedy look actually comes from carrying along a super fine yarn with a plain acrylic yarn, but you can try to make gauge without it. The hat comes in three sizes for adults.

Another super simple one is the Hat Shaped Hat by Lindsay Ingram on Ravelry. It uses super bulky yarn and has a deep ribbed foldover edge with a stockinette stitch body. She says more experience knitters can knock this one out in a few hours.

If you don’t want to bother with the ribbing, try Robyn Devine’s Simple Slouch Hat. It’s worked in worsted weight yarn and has a rolled edge instead of ribbing, making it super simple for new knitters or those who haven’t worked in the round before. The pattern has four sizes from baby to adult and you can find it on Ravelry.

Lion Brand has a chunky knit hat that you can probably stitch up in a weekend. It’s worked with thick and quick yarn with a ribbed edge and a seed stitch body. You can make the whole hat and pompom with just one ball of yarn.

Want to try a different stitch pattern? Lavanya Patricella’s Water is Life Hat (also free on Ravelry) uses bulky yarn and allover ribbing to make a cozy hat that fits a range of heads. Bonus: it only uses around 100 yards of yarn.

Over the years I have shared a lot of pumpkin knitting patterns, and I’ve knit and crocheted a lot of pumpkins myself. But it feels like there are always more fun things to try with knit pumpkins, so this year I wanted to look a little more beyond basic stockinette or ribbed pumpkins and share some pumpkin patterns with cables, bobbles and colorwork.

In the cable collection we’ve got these cute little basic cable and ribbed pumpkins from Elly Bear Knits. There are two sizes that make a wide, flat pumpkin and a taller round pumpkin. Both are worked in the round as a tube that’s cinched top and bottom when you’re done, and they use bulky weight yarn.

Another cute cable pumpkin knitting pattern comes from Gray Bear Akswokrat. This one is knit flat and it looks like a chunky yarn but you could use other weights to make pumpkins of different sizes. This one also has an I-cord stem and uses yarn to cinch up the sections of the pumpkin, giving it a more natural look.

Add some bobbles to your pumpkins with this design from Autumn Shelter Makes. Also worked in the round in a tube, it features a repeating pattern of bobbles and uses yarn wrapped around the outside to make segments. This one looks like worsted weight yarn to me.

Of course there’s nothing that says your pumpkin has to be a single color, so let’s throw in some colorwork. I love the look of the Cozy Fall Pumpkin knitting pattern from South Stitch Girls. The little leather loop adds a rustic touch but you could also just add a stick. These pumpkins have five colorwork options and are worked in worsted weight yarn in the round.

There’s also the Autumn Fair Isle Trio pumpkins pattern from Equestriann Style, which has three different sizes of pumpkins with four colorwork designs. They are worked in super bulky yarn in the round and look good with high contrast or more muted color combinations.

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