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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.

Have you read?

Book Review: Knitted Safari Friends – 20 Adorable Animals to Make

If you have a weakness for knitted animals wearing tiny clothes, Knitted Safari Friends by Sarah Keen is going to be very difficult to resist.

This colourful collection includes 20 safari and savannah animals to knit, including a lion, tiger, elephant, flamingo, hippo, crocodile, rhinoceros, zebra and giraffe.

And yes, many of them have their own little outfits.

The lion in purple overalls is probably enough to sell me on the whole book.

Cute Animals With Plenty of Personality

What I like about this collection is that the animals are clearly designed as characters rather than realistic wildlife models.

They are bright, friendly and a little quirky, which makes them particularly appealing as handmade gifts for children or animal-loving adults.

Looking at the sample pages, the hippo and flamingo patterns have a cheerful illustrated layout, with the finished animals shown in little safari scenes alongside the practical pattern information.

There is also plenty of variety in the shapes, which means you aren’t simply knitting the same basic body 20 times and changing the ears.

If knitted animals with interchangeable clothes are already your thing, have a look at our Knitted Wild Animal Friends book review. That collection includes elephants, giraffes, lions, tigers, zebras and other animals with an entire wardrobe of tiny knitted clothing.

Is Knitted Safari Friends Beginner Friendly?

The publisher describes the patterns as easy to follow, and the book includes a techniques section, abbreviations and knitting conversions to help you through the projects.

I would still put this more in the confident beginner to intermediate category rather than recommending it as someone’s very first knitting project.

Toy knitting usually involves shaping, joining pieces, stuffing and finishing neatly, and that finishing stage can sometimes take almost as long as the knitting itself.

Ask anyone who has ever had a finished knitted animal sitting in pieces on the craft table for three weeks waiting for its legs to be sewn on.

For knitters who are still learning the basics of toy making, our Knitted Amigurumi Animal Friends review is another useful option, with smaller animals and simple clothing pieces.

A Great Gift Knitting Book

These would make lovely handmade gifts for children, particularly if you matched the animal to their favourite safari creature.

You could also knit several of them together as a nursery display or create your own little safari collection.

The clothes and accessories add another level of fun, too. Once you’ve knitted an elephant, there is something wonderfully satisfying about then deciding what that elephant ought to wear.

Apparently this is where my crafting priorities are now.

My Take

I think Knitted Safari Friends is one of those books that you buy intending to make one project and then immediately start planning an entire knitted zoo.

The bright colours, cute facial expressions and tiny outfits give the animals loads of personality, while the variety of creatures should keep the knitting interesting.

Sarah Keen has been designing knitted toys for years, and that experience shows in the way these animals have been turned into characters rather than simply miniature versions of real wildlife.

If you enjoy toy knitting, handmade gifts or anything involving animals in overalls, this one is definitely worth a look.

Knitted Safari Friends: 20 Adorable Animals to Make is written by Sarah Keen and published by GMC Publications. It was released on April 21, 2026, with a listed RRP of $26.99.