Woolly Wormhead is well known for their interesting hat designs, which often use different construction methods or design elements to make a hat that looks a bit different from the usual beanie.
The Pentacap is a free pattern on the Woolly Wormhead website that is worked from the bottom up with a wide garter stitch brim and a braided accent before you work the body in stockinette stitch.
Because it’s worked in the round you have to knit a round and purl a round to make garter stitch, while stockinette is straight knitting, which is kind of a fun twist for your brain.
Once you’ve worked the body, the top is shaped with five decreases, thus the name of the hat.
It’s meant to be snug and close fitting, but there are a range of sizes available so you can knit a slightly larger hat if you don’t like it so snug or if you have a lot of hair that needs to be able to fit underneath the hat.
The sizes are for actual head measurements ranging from 19 to 25 inches, with the hat itself measuring 16 to 22 inches when knit.
It uses worsted weight yarn and requires knowing how to work a crochet cast on, knitting and purling in the round, a bind off braid and the knit 2 together decrease. (The pattern explains how to do the bind off and it looks pretty easy even if you’ve never done something like that before.)
You can get the free pattern from Woolly Wormhead.
Looking for more fun hats to knit? Check out my review of Woolly Wormhead’s book, Knit Hats with Woolly Wormhead. It is full of all sorts of interesting patterns that are sure to turn heads!
[Photo: Woolly Wormhead.]
