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These Knitting Fails Should Make You Feel Better

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Knitting fails to make you feel better about yours. 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.]

Comments

  1. I didn’t realize the amount od difference using regular yarn as opposed to sport weight yarn would make. My hat would have fit Hagrid.

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Stitch a Simple Sack Hat that Looks Like a Turkey

If your family is the sort to do a turkey trot for Thanksgiving, or even just to take family pictures, you’ll want to get started knitting up some Turkey Sack Hats with this pattern from Underground Crafter. 

The pattern uses super bulky yarn and is rated easy. It’s knit flat but there are a few skills in here around the shaping of the eyes, which includes changing colors, working bobbles and doing a wicked purl 3 together decrease. Twice. 

But that’s all in one row, and the rest of it is pretty simple. The beak is worked separately and sewn on, and the side of the hat is stitched up to make it into a hat. 

What’s great about this one is that it comes in 10 sizes, ranging from newborn to adult large, so you really can make one for everyone in the family. And because it uses super bulky yarn you can knit a bunch pretty quickly if that’s a thing you’d like to do. 

It’s also fun because you could use this base pattern to make different animals or for different holidays. Make it all in orange and stitch on a jack o’lantern face for Halloween, or make a white one that’s a snowman, for example. 

In any style this would also be a fun gag gift for that person in your life who has everything or doesn’t want gifts, or if you do a secret Santa or white elephant gift exchange at work or elsewhere. 

And make sure whether you’re making it a turkey or some other character that you include the pom poms at the top! They’re just so cure and a great way to add a bit more color to the project, and they’re easy to make. (See also: ways to make a pompom with yarn.)

You can grab the free pattern at the Underground Crafter website. 

[Photo: Underground Crafter]