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!).

Not too long ago I did a test knit for another designer that was for a cabled cardigan. It’s really cozy and nice but it just about broke me in a ton of different ways. I couldn’t get gauge, which I suppose is my own problem, but mainly I was somehow both bored and forced to pay attention at the same time.

Because it used the same cable all over, I always had to know what row I was on, but nine out of ten of those rows, nothing in particular was going on. So I couldn’t stop paying attention, but what I needed to attend to was boring.

It may have ruined me for knitting cabled sweaters, but maybe I just need something that’s more engaging. Like this Modern Aran Cardigan pattern from Lion Brand Yarn.

This is a reworking of an old pattern from their archives, and you can tell that form the classic look of the cables and the oversized feel (nothing cropped about this one!). It has allover cables, but like a classic Aran sweater it’s not the same cable, so you’ll have to pay attention to what row you’re on and what cable turns happen for which cables on that row.

Because of this, it’s considered an intermediate knitting pattern, but if you’re comfortable working from multiple charts at once it shouldn’t be a problem for you. There are three different charts and seven different cable moves.

Also because the pattern is so big and boxy there are only two sizes available, with a finished chest measurement of either 49 or 63 inches (that’s 124.5 or 160 cm). It’s up to you to decide how much ease you would like and whether that will work for your body.

The pattern uses worsted weight yarn (and calls for another classic, Lion Brand Fisherman’s Wool). It calls for six buttons and includes pockets to make it extra cozy.

This one looks like a great winter project to make and to wear if you’re up for a bit of a challenge. You can grab the free pattern or buy a kit with the yarn needed direct from Lion Brand Yarn.

[Photo: Lion Brand Yarn]

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