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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?

A Blanket Knitting Pattern Where Yarn Selection is Everything

Many times when I write these posts I will say something like “you can use any yarn you want” or “this would be a great stash-busting project.” That’s just how my mind works. And my stash, too, since I probably have sweater quantity of two or three yarns at most, but tons of singles and odd balls and leftovers.

Blankets are generally a really good way to use up those bits, but in this case, I think you’re going to want to plan it out a bit better.

Looking at photos of the Color Study Blanket from Purl Soho, it looks like it’s made with two yarns held together, and that block in the center is worked with one of each color from the adjoining sides to make a mixed up color.

But that’s not actually how it’s done. This is three separate colors (four, really, with the neutrals in the corners) chosen form a yarn with an expansive palette so they play off each other. The project calls for a worsted weight superwash wool, which is a great choice for a blanket that’s both warm and washable.

This pattern was originally designed by Laura Ferguson and was updated by Hiromi Glover. It is worked in one piece in garter stitch intarsia, which is a great way to learn the intarsia technique if you don’t already know it. It comes in crib or throw sizes.

Despite the introduction to this post, I am going to go ahead and say that, yes, of course you could do this blanket with scraps or odd balls or even just choose five colors that don’t blend together so easily. But I really do love the look of the color play, and I think it would be worth your time to find colors that play well together to get a similar effect.

This pattern is available for free from Purl Soho.

[Photo: Purl Soho]