Knit a Hat Like Archie’s

Prince Harry and Megan have been in the news a lot this week, but before that they were spotted in Canada and baby Archie was seen wearing an adorable hat with two pom-pom ears.

The company that made his hat, Make Give Live, said orders have gone through the roof since the pint-sized royal was seen sporting the hat.

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But since we are knitters, we know we can make our own.

The exact pattern is the Cocobear design, which you can also buy direct in a kit for $20, or the pattern alone for $8.

If you want to reverse engineer it, the hat has 2×2 ribbing and a Stockinette Stitch body and regular decreases at the top to give it a round shape.

Lion Brand Yarn recently sent a newsletter featuring the Royal Baby Beanie Bear Hat, which looks similar but has a shorter section of decreases.

Jessie Molzan has a design she’s calling the Archie Bear Hat that has no crown shaping, but is worked straight to the desired length and closed up with a three-needle bind off. If you prefer that look the pattern is $2 on Ravelry, with proceeds going to the Australian Red Cross and WIRES Emergency Wildlife Rescue.

Another good option is to take any baby hat pattern (maybe the Basic Baby Hat by Heather Tucker or my Super Speedy Bulky Hat) and add pom-poms to the sides.

Are you planning to make an Archie hat? I’d love to hear about it!

[Photo via Make Give Live.]

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I’ve been enjoying knit amigurumi animal patterns lately (see also: this adorable knit pigeon) and of course being a knitter I love llamas.

So when I saw this little llama pattern I knew I had to share it.

The appropriately named Llama patter from Annie Ahn calls for fingering weight yarn, and it uses two colors for the body and three for the little blanket. The pompom can be made to match or in another color. All of these parts take tiny amounts of yarn so you can use whatever scraps you have left over from socks or other projects and change colors whenever you need to.

It might also be fun to use some mohair or other fuzzy or textured yarn on this one to give your llama a different look. In all the project uses between 100 and 150 yards, or 91-137 m, of yarn and the llama comes out about 10 cm/4 inches tall.

The body of the llama is worked in one piece, so this project is suited to intermediate knitters or those who have comfort working in the round and with all those little pieces.

This one is made to be small so you can carry it around with you (it would be super cute on a keychain or as a zipper pull) but I think it would be a lot of fun to knit this in larger yarn, too, to make a bigger llama. You could even make a whole family in different sizes just by using different weights of yarn and corresponding needles.

The details are so cute, from the shaggy hair to its little accessories, but you could make it plain or change it up by knitting a tiny scarf or even working a little fair isle pattern on the legs or body. So many fun possibilities!

The pattern is available on Ravelry in English and Korean.

[Photo: Annie Ahn]

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