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Giveaway: Super Duper Knit Hats for Beginners

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Super Duper Knit Hats review

 

Congratulations Patricia!

If you live in the Northern Hemisphere, it’s high time you should be knitting hats and other goodies to keep yourself and your loved ones warm.

This week’s giveaway will help you, even if you’ve never knit a hat before.

Super Duper Knit Hats for Beginners includes six projects — five hats and a cowl big enough to go over your head — that are all great for newer knitters because they’re knit flat. Yes that means seaming but it also means avoiding circulars and DPNs, which a lot of people like to do.

This is an ebook, and the winner will receive a digital copy.

If you’d like a chance to win this ebook, leave a comment on this post before the end of the day Sunday, October 23. I’d love to know what kind of hat you most like to wear. One of my favorites to design was a simple beret in self-striping sock yarn, but my favorite to wear is probably a big wooly flat hat I made in a fun homespun yarn.

Thanks for visiting, commenting and sharing, and good luck!

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  1. I love bowler hats & have a couple in different colours as well as a knitted one I picked up when I was in the Aran Islands (home of the Aran sweater) some years ago.

  3. Love to make hats! Probably my fave to knit and to wear is a somewhat slouchy striped hat. It’s fun to find out what your friends’ fave colors are and make them that way. Easy circular knitting and great hats!!!

  6. I love my “pickle” hat! It is a knit hat with a top that reminds me of a pickle stem. I love a hat that covers my ears from the winter wind!

  7. My husband is the expert knitter in our family. I learned basic stitches as a child, but never really did much with it. My husband makes socks, gloves, beautiful sweaters, etc, but I only remember him making 1 hat. This would be great for him.

  9. I would love to have this book so I can make hats for my friends this year for Christmas. Thanks for the chance to win.

  10. Hats are such a fashion statement. I love knitting them and matching them with a corresponding scarf. A lovely gift. I put knitted flowers and bead trim on them. I feel this makes them
    unique and individual. Cannot have too many hat pattern resources .

  11. I’ve really wanted to learn how to make hats! I like them all. A beret is cute but a stocking hat is warm and easy to wear while being active.

Have you read?

Stitch a Scarf with Dreamy Waves

As I write this, it’s probably time to start thinking about winter knitting if you haven’t already. And it’s definitely time to think about gift knitting if you have any of that you plan to do for the holidays.

The Dreamy Waves Scarf from Knit Picks, designed by Stacey Winklepleck, would be a great project to go in either category.

It uses two different multicolored yarns and a simple repeating wave pattern to make a project that looks a lot more complicated and dramatic than it is. The gradient look happens naturally just by switching which yarn you’re knitting with.

This pattern uses worsted weight yarn so it’s a pretty quick project even though a scarf is large and this one is pretty wide. It measures 8.5 inches (21.5 cm) wide and 63 inches or 120 cm long. Of course you can make it longer or shorter as you like. As written it takes one ball of each color so it’s a pretty economical project, too.

It’s rated for intermediate knitters but if you know how to do various increases and decreases you’ll be all set. The pattern uses knit 2 together, make 1 left and right, centered double decrease and slip slip knit. All of the stitches are explained in a glossary in the pattern so even if you haven’t done all of them it shouldn’t be too hard to figure out.

The pattern also includes tons of options for different colorways in yarn that Knit Picks sells,  so you can see how different combinations knit up before you buy the yarn. That’s such a great idea!

Of course if you already have two multicolored yarns with long color runs on hand, you can absolutely use them, too. It might also be fun, but would give you a totally different look, to use a solid color and a bunch of scraps or one multicolored yarn to see how the different colors play together. So many options!

You can grab this free pattern and check out all the color options at Knit Picks.

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