Free Sweater Pattern for the Man In Your Life

I’m not one of those lucky knitters with a husband who proudly wears their handmade creations. Let me rephrase that — I wouldn’t want him to. This man lives in work boots and grease. He’s a full-time grease monkey, always elbow-deep in diesel, oil, or tangled up in some piece of rusty machinery. If he’s not under a tractor, he’s hauling hay, mucking about in the paddock, or brushing off some mysterious farm-related residue I don’t even want to identify.

So no, my delicate hand knits are not destined for his rough-and-tumble wardrobe. But if he suddenly transformed into someone who appreciated fine wool and cared about not staining it beyond recognition… and if I found myself miraculously inclined to knit something just for him…

This. This sweater would be it. It’s absolutely gorgeous — rugged, classic, and cozy enough to almost survive a man like him (with very supervised wearing conditions, of course).

Maybe someday my son will want a hand-knit sweater. He’s 22 though, and it’s not looking good. If so, The pattern is free, here

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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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