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!).

Fall will be here before we know it, and that means there are holidays coming right behind where we might be entertaining at home. It’s always fun to have a hand knit touch in your home for other people to see, and if you’re going to be in the kitchen all day you might as well have some nice knit dish cloths to use.

I love this little plaid hand towel from Darling Jadore. Use a little bit of leftover cotton yarn from another project for the plaid portion. It looks like the horizontal stripes are worked as you knit and the vertical stripes are done with duplicate stitch, making this a quick and easy project even newer knitters can make.

Combine garter stitch and an easy eyelet pattern worked sideways to make the Annette Dish Towel from Cluck Cluck Boots, which is meant to be reminiscent of flour sack towels. It calls for DK weight yarn and you can work it in one color or two (or even three!).

Add a little more texture with this set of kitchen towels from Whileberry Creative. They’re mostly worked in garter stitch with borders in easy knit/purl patterns, and you can work them in sport or worsted weight yarn.

Two of Wands Shop has another cute allover knit and purl pattern they call the Seersucker Textured Tea Towel. It’s an easy repeating pattern worked in worsted weight yarn, and there’s a chart in the pattern you can use, but don’t have to, if you want to practice knitting from a chart.

The Classic Cloth dish towel from Handmade Home by Connie is another one that can use a little leftover yarn in a contrasting color, or you could color block it our use stripes throughout the pattern. This one uses worsted weight yarn and another easy repeating knit purl stitch pattern.

If you like to hang your towel on the oven handle or elsewhere but it’s always falling off, try the Stay Put kitchen towel from Fancy Step Knits. This project is worked in garter stitch and includes a hole partway through so you can pull the towel through itself over a rod or handle. Stripes are optional but a nice addition.

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