Knit a Hat Like Archie’s

January 9, 2020 by Sarah White

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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Easy Knit Baskets to Use All Your Stash

For the past few years I’ve taken part in a Christmas in July blog hop that encourages people to get a jump on their making for holiday gifts.

I love to use yarn I already have for these projects in the hope that people will consider what they already have that they can use to make projects for themselves or to give as gifts.

This year it was a couple of knit baskets made using partial balls of yarn left in my stash from other projects.

They use the same basic pattern but the first one is made with two colors of bulky yarn, and the second used two strands of worsted weight yarn held together, which made the gauge about the same, but I cast on fewer stitches to make a smaller version.

The bottom of the basket is square, though you can make them rectangular if you’d rather. Then I just knit up the sides in rounds until I was about to run out of yarn. This gave both baskets rather short sides — maybe more like a tray than a basket — but you can keep knitting as long as you like to make the sides of your basket as tall as you want.

They’re worked in seed stitch, which keeps the edges from curling and adds a nice texture to the baskets.

Of course this also allows you to use even more odd balls from your stash. I’d love to make a big one someday combining lots of different yarn. I mean, I’d probably use it to store more yarn, but that’s a fine thing to do.

As it is, these little trays are great for sitting on your desk or bedside table to hold little things that always seem to appear there. I like to use one to hold the supplies for whatever project I’m working on, things like little scissors, my tape measure, a crochet hook, etc.

And they would make good gifts on their own or as a container to hold some other goodies if you like.

You can find the free pattern for these stash busting baskets over at Our Daily Craft.