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Knit Holiday Hats with Fox and Pine Stitches

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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!

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Stacking Stars Knitting Pattern

There are so many things I love about the Stacking Stars pattern from Frankie Brown.

First, it looks like a kid’s toy, which it totally could be, though the intent is to stack the stars into a Christmas tree bit of decor.

I love the rainbow gradient, which makes it all the more cheerful, and serves as a reminder that, while you can plan out your colors beautifully, you can also use your stash for your own brilliant hodgepodge of a star tree.

It includes patterns for nine different sizes of stars, from 2 inch to 6 inch, which makes the perfect pile to look like a tree. What’s more, these stars are worked in garter stitch, so it’s a pretty easy pattern, even if you’re new to knitting. And the stars are solid, so not only can you use them to make your own amazing stack of a tree, you can make more to decorate packages, use as Christmas tree ornaments, make a darling garland, or all of the above.

The pattern calls for DK weight yarn but of course you could play with the yarn weight, too, to make stars that are even larger or smaller than the ones shown. And the bigger ones are made by just working more repeats, so you could continue to work as established to make larger ones to suit all your crafty purposes if you like.

Frankie’s patterns are free on Ravelry, but they ask that people who enjoy their patterns send a donation to the Children’s Liver Disease Foundation. Through the years they have raised more that £26,000 for the charity, which helps families of kids with liver disease. You can donate to Frankie’s fundraiser here. They have tons of great holiday projects and other designs you can check out on their designer page on Ravelry.

[Photo: Frankie Brown]

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