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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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Comments

  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.

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Totoro Knitting Patterns

We’re a big Studio Ghibli household, and while they are sometimes very protective of their copyrights (as evidenced by the number of patterns on Ravelry that were removed from the service when it received a takedown notice back in 2021), there are still a fair number of Totoro knitting patterns (as well as other designs I’m sure we’ll get to someday). Let’s check them out!

Yaya Labs has a cute plush Totoro that looks like it might stand up on its own. The pattern is available on LoveCrafts, and it calls for DK or light worsted weight yarn in four colors. The pattern is considered advanced but it does include a photo tutorial. It stands 10.6 inches or 27 cm tall.

A similar pattern can be found a Shino Craft, which doesn’t have the leaf hat but does include little hands, and the legs aren’t as separate from the body. This one calls for sport weight yarn and is knit flat on two needles. 

All Made Here has a Totoro pouch that is super cute and looks pretty easy to knit. It measures 14 by 18 cm and is rated for advanced beginners. You can get the pattern when you subscribe to updates or follow the designer on Instagram. 

Stitch Totoro on a sweater with the Totorogenseren sweater from Anna-Sofia Vintersol. This free download on Ravelry uses worsted/aran weight yarn in two or three colors. The pattern comes in nine sizes, with a chest measurement ranging from 77 to 149 cm. 

The Forest Spirit Fair Isle Jumper from Kraft with Kindrex features a row of Totoros on the circular yoke, along with other little colorwork designs. The design includes three sizes, with chest measurements ranging from 91 to 101 cm. It calls for 4 ply (that’s fingering/sock weight in other parts of the world). 

Or you can stitch Totoro as part of a project with more Ghibli characters, as on the Magical Anime Knit Sweater (a longtime bucket list item for me) from The Bearded Sewist. This on has a circular yoke and rows of different characters including Totoro, Ponyo, soot sprites, Calcifer and more. The pattern comes in four sizes and is rated intermediate/advanced. It calls for DK weight yarn and you can grab a copy on Ravelry. 

Or try Katharina Kuntz’s Anime Scarf, also on Ravelry. This one is a double knit scarf worked in fingering weight yarn in two colors, with allover designs from Studio Ghibli movies. She started by knitting the movies in chronological order but gave that up after she realized all her favorites would be in the middle and therefore not visible when worn. You can probably rearrange the motifs further somewhat if you want to showcase your favorites.