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Knit a Pokemon Go Beanie Hat for Your Collector

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pokemon go knit hat patternI know some people are still into Pokemon Go (though I have to admit I never played it) and with cool weather coming around again so (oh so soon!), it might be time to stitch a Pokemon Go hat to protect the ears of your favorite creature hunter.

This is a free pattern available from designer Mrs Leudeke. When I tried to access her site it wasn’t working, but I did find the pattern on the Internet Archive if you want to check it out and was able to successfully download the PDF from there.

I really love the multicolored pompom on this one, too, though of course you could leave it off. The pattern offers two sizes and five design variations, and is worked in sport weight yarn.

Are you or someone you know playing Pokemon Go? I’d love to hear about it.

[Photo: Mrs Leudeke via Ravelry.]   Looking for more Pokemon patterns? Check these out on Etsy.

Comments

  1. I can’t find the pattern through Ravelry or her site either, and now the Internet Archive link doesn’t work! Any other ideas how I can get the pattern? My friend would LOVE this…

  2. I was able to access the pattern page but the PDF didn’t download correctly. I’m not sure where else to find it but there are other Pokemon inspired hats out there!

Have you read?

Knit Back at AI Patterns with the AIlephant

Lots of craft designers are understandably frustrated about the proliferation of AI “designed” patterns and photos of projects that have no basis in reality. People who don’t know how to tell if a project is AI are often also frustrated when they see a picture for something but there’s no pattern because it’s not real, or they buy a pattern that doesn’t actually explain how to make the thing or ends up looking totally different from the picture. 

Some designers have taken it upon themselves to try to make some of those AI patterns that we see online, often with hilarious results. 

Katherine Foster was inspired by a famous AI elephant to make what she calls “AIlephant,” which is now a free knitting pattern on Ravelry. 

Her prototype uses worsted weight yarn, but you can use whatever yarn you like to make different sizes of elephants. 

The elephant features a cable running down the trunk and a different cable pattern on the back. It’s worked in pieces that are joined and stuffed as you go. It uses German short row shaping on the body and includes written instructions as well as a chart for the cable patterns. 

Reading through the pattern, it sounds a little fiddly, which makes sense because it was designed to look like a pattern that isn’t real. But it’s doable, as evidenced by the handful of projects you can find on Ravelry. The ears on her version aren’t quite as big and round or maybe don’t sit in quite the same place as the AI version (which if you haven’t seen it there’s a photo of that on the projects page, too). But it’s a pretty honest replica of a dishonest photo, and a really cute elephant in its own right. 

If you make this one I would love to hear about it!

You can grab the free pattern on Ravelry. 

[Photo: Katherine Foster]