Knit Holiday Hats with Fox and Pine Stitches

Fox and Pine Stitches has an array of holiday-themed knitting patterns for you to choose from, if you’re looking for Santa hats, stocking caps or other projects with a winter theme. I couldn’t decide which ones to share so here’s a whole bunch for you to look through. The best part? The patterns are all free and usually offer a range of sizes so you can stitch them up for the whole family.

We need to start with the super adorable Christmas tree hat, which would be perfect for a newborn photo shoot as shown but is sized for kids and up to adult women. It uses super bulky yarn and you can use little scraps to make the ornaments.

The Santa Pixie Bonnet is a super cute bonnet-style hat for kids aged newborn to 5+ years. It uses worsted weight yarn in two colors.

The Double Pompom Christmas hat is classic red and white, though you can work it in other colors, and uses chunky yarn for quick knitting. Of course the highlight is the pompoms at the top that give the pattern its name. It’s sized from newborns up to women’s size.

Make a Santa stocking cap in worsted weight yarn for everyone in the family (newborn through men), or make it an elf-styled stocking cap with stripes. (There’s a chunky weight version, a super bulky version and a worsted weight version of that one.)

And if you’re looking for holiday-themed beanies, there are lots of options. Check out the Santa hat pattern made in super bulky yarn, or the Santa belt pattern, also in super bulky. Or make a hat with a truck hauling a Christmas tree on it. It’s a worsted weight pattern made in all sizes through adult men, and the colorwork is added with duplicate stitch. (If you love the Christmas tree farm look, there’s a coordinating hot water bottle cover, too.)

There are also plain and striped beanies to give a bit of a holiday look without being too Christmasy. Find chunky and worsted weight versions, or a similar style with ear flaps. So many options!

Free Christmas Stocking Cap Santa Hat Knit Pattern

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Give the Gift of Christmas Socks

Fall will be here before we know it, and that means there are holidays coming right behind where we might be entertaining at home. It’s always fun to have a hand knit touch in your home for other people to see, and if you’re going to be in the kitchen all day you might as well have some nice knit dish cloths to use.

I love this little plaid hand towel from Darling Jadore. Use a little bit of leftover cotton yarn from another project for the plaid portion. It looks like the horizontal stripes are worked as you knit and the vertical stripes are done with duplicate stitch, making this a quick and easy project even newer knitters can make.

Combine garter stitch and an easy eyelet pattern worked sideways to make the Annette Dish Towel from Cluck Cluck Boots, which is meant to be reminiscent of flour sack towels. It calls for DK weight yarn and you can work it in one color or two (or even three!).

Add a little more texture with this set of kitchen towels from Whileberry Creative. They’re mostly worked in garter stitch with borders in easy knit/purl patterns, and you can work them in sport or worsted weight yarn.

Two of Wands Shop has another cute allover knit and purl pattern they call the Seersucker Textured Tea Towel. It’s an easy repeating pattern worked in worsted weight yarn, and there’s a chart in the pattern you can use, but don’t have to, if you want to practice knitting from a chart.

The Classic Cloth dish towel from Handmade Home by Connie is another one that can use a little leftover yarn in a contrasting color, or you could color block it our use stripes throughout the pattern. This one uses worsted weight yarn and another easy repeating knit purl stitch pattern.

If you like to hang your towel on the oven handle or elsewhere but it’s always falling off, try the Stay Put kitchen towel from Fancy Step Knits. This project is worked in garter stitch and includes a hole partway through so you can pull the towel through itself over a rod or handle. Stripes are optional but a nice addition.

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