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.

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I happen to live in the Northern Hemisphere, but I know we have a lot of Southern Hemisphere friends, too, who are heading into the cooler months as we are warming up. Whichever one of the seasons you’re in, you might want to stitch up this sweet little hood.

This pattern by saskie&co is called snug hood and it uses two colors of yarn to make a close-fitting pixie style hood (almost a balaclava but it doesn’t cover your face, though there is a neck covering portion to keep you a little warmer). You can use the fingering weight wool and mohair held together that are called for in the pattern, or use a single strand of DK weight yarn.

The neck portion and the edging around the face are worked in ribbing in a single color, while the body of the hat includes an allover colorwork flower pattern. The project is worked both flat and in the round and there is colorwork that is knit flat, which means you’ll have to purl in colorwork (which some people don’t like; also, you can’t see what you’re doing as well on the back of the work).

The pattern comes in one size and the colorwork is charted. Testers noted this is a quick and easy project and a great way to learn some new skills (chart reading, working stranded colorwork flat) if you’ve never tried those things before. They noted the hood is cute, comfortable and warm, and a few said it didn’t take as much yarn as the pattern suggests, so bear that in mind if you’re trying to use stash.

Speaking of the pattern notes, check out all the cute color variations in the projects on Ravelry. From pink and red to blue and white to gray and cream, there are lots of great options to think about.

You can buy this pattern on Ravelry.

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