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Free Pattern for a Breton Striped Hat

April 11, 2013 by Sarah White

breton striped hatThere’s something totally summery about the Breton stripe, which was originally designed for the French navy but was taken over by nautically inspired fashionistas for decades.

Kat from Just Crafty Enough took the stripe as her inspiration for the latest Iron Craft challenge and whipped up a darling striped hat.

It’s a great hat for spring because it’s snug and short, not completely covering the ears. I love that the dark stripe has a bit of sparkle, too, which brings some sass to a classic design. You could of course work the stripes in whatever color you wanted if you weren’t trying for the nautical look.

She also worked some handwarmers in the same striped pattern so check back on her site for those, too!

[Photo via Just Crafty Enough.]

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Comments

  1. kat says

    April 11, 2013 at 1:16 pm

    Thanks Sarah!

  2. Knitting Journal says

    July 5, 2013 at 10:40 am

    Great information. Two things I like about the post, one it is straight forward and two it does not attempt to promote anyone’s position particularly. Nice work Sarah.

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Knit a Hat with a Flock of Chickens

It’s well known (among knitters, anyway) that knitters seem to love chickens as a motif and a subject of our knitting projects. The Emotional Support Chicken and all the other chicken knitting patterns are just the beginning of our devotion to farmyard friends. 

For example, there’s Farmer Dennis’ Chicken Hat. This free pattern from Stacy Black is a simple worsted weight beanie sized for adults and decorate with a couple of little rounds of colorwork fences and a flock of chickens strutting around the body of the hat. 

You don’t need a lot of any of the colors for the chickens, their facial features or the fences, so this is a great project for using little leftover bits from other projects. The main color for the body of the hat is less than a skein using the yarn suggested, so you might just have everything you need in your house to start stitching up this hat right away. 

The colorwork is presented as a chart, with a 16 stitch section that repeats around the body of the hat. All the color changes are shown on the chart but I think it would be easier to knit the whole chicken in the chicken color and add the eye, beak and other features using duplicate stitch when the knitting is done. That way you don’t have to carry those yarns around the whole hat for just a few stitches. 

As the name suggests, the original hat was given to a farmer who shared their eggs, but anyone who raises chickens or just has a thing for the fowl is sure to love this cute hat. It wouldn’t be too difficult for someone new to stranded knitting or reading charts to make, either, so if that’s you, give it a try. 

The pattern is available for free on Ravelry. 

[Photo: Stacy Black]

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