Pumpkin Hat Patterns for Halloween and Beyond

It’s Friday the 13th, which means it must be time to start thinking about Halloween. Especially if you want to knit something for your Halloween or fall decor, it’s high time you got started. Here are a bunch of great pumpkin hat knitting patterns for kids and adults that you’re sure to love. Break out the orange yarn and get to stitching!

Looking for more Halloween Knitting patterns? Check these out on Etsy.

Over at About Knitting we have two cute little pumpkin hats. My ribbed pumpkin hat was actually my daughter’s first Halloween costume (she was an eight-week-old preemie at the time), and Eileen Casey designed a cute one as well with a stockinette base.

Hannah NeCamp’s cute Cable Me a Pumpkin Hat has a cute rustic look thanks to tweedy yarn. It’s free during the month of September.

A wee orange hat and booties for babies come from Lion Brand Yarn, and Jessamyn Faith has another pumpkin hat for newborns. If you happen to know someone in the 2T range or are up for a bit of alteration, check out the Pumpkin Spice Hat from Alyssa McCain.

Those are both Ravelry downloads, as is the Pumpkin Hat from Dorte Lyager, which is different from the others in that it’s a beret and its sized for 2 years up to adult men. I can see the cute family photos now.

And Billi-Jean’s Pumpkin Hat would serve as a great first hat pattern because it has a rolled brim and is all stockinette. Leave off the stem topper for a really cute baby hat suitable for any time of year.

Want a jack ‘o lantern instead of a pumpkin? Try Michelle Ruby’s Pumkinhead for Grownups pattern, another free Ravelry download.

And speaking of pumpkinheads, though this one isn’t really a hat, you’ve got to check out the Pumpkin Heads pattern from tangle. These are lined and stuffed, so not exactly for people to wear long-term, but they’re pretty creepy and cool nonetheless (and perfect for some Halloween yarn bombing of statues!).

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I know knitting a dress sounds like a major time commitment. And that’s before I even tell you that this particular dress, the Sixth Ave Skater Dress by Briana Luppino, is worked in light fingering weight yarn.

But would you just take a moment to look at it and tell me if it doesn’t look like it would be worth all the time you would spend knitting it? And it’s miles of stockinette stitch so it’s actually beginner friendly and a great semi-mindless knit you can take with you on your travels this summer and wear when it is done.

The dress is worked from the top down with tank straps, a scoop neck, waist shaping and a flowy skirt for a fun and comfortable fit.

The pattern has 10 sizes, with finished bust measurements ranging from 28 to 64 inches, or 71.5 to 163 cm. The sample shown was worked with 4 inches/10 cm of negative ease at the bust, and the designer says most people like between 2 and 6 inches/5 to 15 cm of negative ease in the bust and around 10 inches/25.4 cm positive ease in the hips.

(To refresh your memory, negative ease means the measurement of the garment is smaller than your actual body measurement, while positive ease is bigger than your body.)

To pick a size you’d work from the bust measurement because you can always add more or fewer decreases as you need to get your desired fit at the waist and hips. And because it’s worked from the top down you can try it on as often as you like to make sure it’s the perfect fit.

The I-cord edgings give the dress a super casual feel, and I think this would be a great one to add to your summer rotation. (Yes, even with a wool blend yarn.)

You can see lots of cute finished versions and grab a copy of the pattern for yourself on Ravelry.

[Photo: Briana Luppino]

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