Knit Up a Blooming Good Flower Beanie Hat

I haven’t done a great job lately bringing you whimsical knitting patterns because there’s just so much to talk about in the knitting world this time of year, but I wanted to share this amazing hat that could be your Halloween costume for next year or the hat you wear when you need to be reminded that warm, sunny days actually do exist.

The Bloom Where You Are Planted Hat by Ainur Berkimbayeva has two options for petals so you can make a sunflower or zinnia style hat. The part that covers your head is the center of the flower with the petals radiating out around your head. You can choose to do one or two layers of petals depending on how much yarn you have and how full you want your flower to be.

The pattern has four sizes, to fit a baby, child, small/medium adult and large adult, so you can cover the whole family with flowers if you want. It calls for worsted weight yarn, and you will need three colors for either version.

Ainur says the idea behind the hat is that we shouldn’t be postponing joy until some magical future time when everything is right, because that’s not a time that’s really going to come. We need to hold onto the little bits of happy we can find in our current lives, even if we have to make them for ourselves. And knitting this hat will definitely give you some happy.

This would, of course, be an adorable hat for a baby or little kid, but you should knit one for yourself, too, and shine like the radiant flower you are.

You can get the pattern on Ravelry, and because everyone should be able to enjoy a little knitting joy, there are discount codes available if you’re not able to pay full price.

[Photo: Ainur Berkimbayeva]

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Over the years I have shared a lot of pumpkin knitting patterns, and I’ve knit and crocheted a lot of pumpkins myself. But it feels like there are always more fun things to try with knit pumpkins, so this year I wanted to look a little more beyond basic stockinette or ribbed pumpkins and share some pumpkin patterns with cables, bobbles and colorwork.

In the cable collection we’ve got these cute little basic cable and ribbed pumpkins from Elly Bear Knits. There are two sizes that make a wide, flat pumpkin and a taller round pumpkin. Both are worked in the round as a tube that’s cinched top and bottom when you’re done, and they use bulky weight yarn.

Another cute cable pumpkin knitting pattern comes from Gray Bear Akswokrat. This one is knit flat and it looks like a chunky yarn but you could use other weights to make pumpkins of different sizes. This one also has an I-cord stem and uses yarn to cinch up the sections of the pumpkin, giving it a more natural look.

Add some bobbles to your pumpkins with this design from Autumn Shelter Makes. Also worked in the round in a tube, it features a repeating pattern of bobbles and uses yarn wrapped around the outside to make segments. This one looks like worsted weight yarn to me.

Of course there’s nothing that says your pumpkin has to be a single color, so let’s throw in some colorwork. I love the look of the Cozy Fall Pumpkin knitting pattern from South Stitch Girls. The little leather loop adds a rustic touch but you could also just add a stick. These pumpkins have five colorwork options and are worked in worsted weight yarn in the round.

There’s also the Autumn Fair Isle Trio pumpkins pattern from Equestriann Style, which has three different sizes of pumpkins with four colorwork designs. They are worked in super bulky yarn in the round and look good with high contrast or more muted color combinations.

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