Easy Pixie Bonnet Hat

This sweet solid pixie bonnet winter hat knitting pattern from Fox and Pine Stitches is perfect for making handmade gifts for your little loved ones.

This bonnet pattern that is available in various sizes, including newborn, baby, and children. The specific sizes included in the pattern are Newborn (0-3 months), 3-6 months, 6-12 months, 1-2 years, 3-4 years, and 5+ years. It calls for worsted weight yarn in a solid color, but of course you can choose to use self striping yarn, multicolored yarn or make your own stripes by turning it into a stash busting project.

The pattern includes full details on the recommended head circumferences and final bonnet measurements for each size, so that you can ensure that the bonnet will fit correctly. This is particularly important for babies and young children, as a poorly-fitting bonnet can be uncomfortable or even dangerous.

The pattern also includes plenty of photos to help guide you through the process of completing the bonnet and ties. These photos can be very helpful in understanding the instructions, and can also serve as a reference if you get stuck or need to check your progress. Additionally, the photos show all the finished bonnet in different sizes and stages, so you can have a good idea of the final outcome.

And there’s something extra cute about a bonnet compared to a regular winter hat, so if you need an adorable way to keep a little one warm, check out this sweet pattern.

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I don’t even know what to say about this amazing knitting pattern. The Bestiary Scarf from Monstra & Mirabilia is so full of details it’s a little intimidating to talk about.

It features, as the designer describes it, an “artistic encyclopaedia of Western mythical creatures.”

The pattern includes a dragon, harpy, Medusa, chimaera, centauress, phoneix, kraken, mermaid, sew serpent, cyclops, wyvern, Pegasus, amphiptere and amphibaena. (It’s a good thing there’s a photo of the proejct with everything labelled because I definitely didn’t know the names for everything.) It’s also designed like a landscape, with water and land creatures toward the bottom ends and sky creatures toward the top.

The dragon is at the center and is worked sideways so it will show as upright when you wear it.

The scarf is worked in double knitting, so the colorwork appears in the opposite colors on the other side.

It’s worked in light fingering weight yarn (on size 0 US or 2mm knitting needles) and the colorwork is shown in charts. The pattern also includes some video tutorials and written instructions to help you along. The designer says the pattern is for intermediate knitters, and “advanced beginners may succeed with patience and the help of the video tutorials.”

When I was an advanced beginner this kind of a pattern would have brought me to tears, but if you love a challenge, and a project that you’ll wear and get tons of astonished reactions every time, this is the project for you. And of course if you have a few double knitting projects under your belt and are comfortable reading charts, this project shouldn’t be hard, but that doesn’t mean it’s fast. But lots of great things take time, and that’s never stopped us before, right?

You can get a copy of this pattern from Monstra & Mirabilia on Ravelry.

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