Nautical Anchor Hat Knitting Pattern

I don’t really feel like I should need to write any words on this post for you to want to make this adorable hat for a baby in your life.

Or maybe not even a baby. A toddler or a little kid? It’s even sized for teens and adults so you can make them for everyone at the clam bake or on the whale watching expedition.

And even if your lifestyle doesn’t include weekends at the cape or on the shore, you can still stitch up this sweet hat for any beach loving person you know. This would be so cute for a newborn photo shoot with a nautical theme or for a little one with an ocean-themed nursery.

The hat is super easy to work, too, because it’s knit just with the nautical stripes and the anchor is added afterward with duplicate stitch. This is an easy way to add a little graphic element to a pattern without having to deal with doing stranded colorwork or intarsia when you have just a little bit of color to a project.

You could, of course, make it even easier by knitting the hat in a solid color, or just doing the stripes and not adding the anchor. But it’s so darn cute (and this is really an easy technique).

If you’ve never done duplicate stitch before, check out my tutorial all about how to do it. Once you get the mechanics of how it works it’s actually pretty quick to do. For the anchor you do have to read a chart, but it’s such a simple design that shouldn’t be a problem (and of course you can kind of freehand a design based on this anchor pattern if you’d rather).

You can grab the free pattern from Fox & Pine Stitches.

[Photo: Fox & Pine Stitches]

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Blankets are a great blank slate project that you can change up in a million different ways. From color to stitch pattern to size, the possibilities are almost endless.

Jared Flood, the designer behind Brooklyn Tweed, was inspired by a log cabin quilt his mother made in 1995 to re-create that design in knitting, which led to more blankets and ultimate Brooklyn Tweed’s Knit and Crochet Blankets, which includes 25 patterns from an array of designers using different skills and techniques to make cozy, pretty blankets.

The patterns are divided into three aesthetic themes: traditions, minimalism and colorplay. The patterns are rated on a scale of one to five, with one being the easiest, and there aren’t any pieces rated five. Two blankets are rated one, 14 are two, eight are three and one is four.

In addition, three of the 25 patterns are crocheted, but they either use single crochet or granny stitch, so they are pretty easy even if you don’t do a lot of crochet. You can see all the patterns on Ravelry.

Some of my favorites include Rattan by Rastus Hsu, a chunky blanket worked in knits and purls with simple crossing stitches to make a raised woven look; Homewood by Seth Richardson, covers in dramatic, loopy cables; Ainur Berkimbayeva’s Tessellate, one of the beginner projects that doesn’t really look beginner but is totally worked in knit and purl stitches; Warp + Weft by Aist? Butkevi?ien?, which is mostly knits and purls but makes a fun woven look fabric that blew my mind a little bit; and the same designer’s Canyonland, a multicolored blanket with wavy stripes.

The patterns tell you how to resize them for different dimensions and include information on pattern repeats where it is possible to make a totally custom size.

Many different techniques are included here such as cables, lace, shadow knitting, intarsia and other colorwork techniques, as well as modular knitting and lots of sewing pieces together. The patterns are all presented with charts, but there are line by line written instructions available on the Brooklyn Tweed website if you need them.

The book ends with a deep dive into log cabin knitting, telling the story of the quilt Jared’s mom made and how he made it in knitting, as well as the multitude of variations you can make if you want your own log cabin style design.

The back of the book includes a little written information about some of the special techniques needed, but there are no photos.

This is a lovely book full of inspiration for knitting and crochet blankets for any skill level. If you like to make blankets as gifts or aspire to have a handmade blanket in every room of the house, these designs would be a great place to start.

About the book: 192 pages, paperback, 25 patterns. Published 2024 by Abrams Books, suggested retail price $24.99.

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