These Knitting Fails Should Make You Feel Better

We all have craft fails from time to time, including and especially in our knitting.

Sometimes the only thing that can make you feel better is remembering that other people have failed at knitting in the past, often spectacularly, and many of them were kind enough to provide photographic evidence of that fact.

Check out these 17 Hats that Went Horribly Wrong from our pals at Top Crochet Patterns (most of them are actually knit) the next time you need to remember that we all mess up sometimes, and it’s a good thing our mistakes are made in yarn, and we can just rip them out and try again. I call it hiding the evidence.

Have you ever had an amazing knitting fail? I’d love to hear about it.

[Photo via Top Crochet Patterns.]

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Brioche knitting, also sometimes known as English rib, is a popular way to add a lot of texture to knitting projects. It can be a little intimidating when you’ve never done it before, but once you get the technique down it’s lots of fun to do. And it creates the squishiest, warmest fabric, so it’s great for fall and winter accessories like these.

Mirella Moments has a whole collection of English rib knitting patterns, including the hat pictured here, a headband and an infinity scarf.

These would be super as gifts to knit now and have on hand for the holidays. You can knit all three and give them to three different people, or gift them all to one person, or keep them for yourself. No one is judging here.

All of the projects use worsted weight yarn but they come out looking chunky because of the knitting technique, which involves yarn overs that are worked together with the next stitch on the next round so there’s not a visible hole, it just makes the fabric really stretchy.

You can practice working the stitch flat if you like, but it’s not any more difficult to do in the round. If you’ve never done it before you might want to start with the headband pattern here before moving on to a bigger project.

The hat and the headband both come in three sizes for adults (the small would probably work for a teen) and the infinity scarf is one size but you could adjust it to be bigger or smaller if you like.

These projects are so pretty and relatively easy to do, too, even if you’ve never worked brioche before.

You can find all the patterns, complete with photo tutorials, at Mirella Moments: hat | headband | infinity scarf.

[Photo: Mirella Moments]

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