Ocean Blue Knit Baby Hat Pattern

Delight yourself with a wonderfully styled knitted baby hat pattern. This is the first part of a set that includes a knit hat and an infinity scarf for babies. Devote some time to this knitting project and you will get an excellent knit set for your precious child. Ocean blue color of the knitted set makes it charming, but in no way limits you in the choice of your favorite color. Your your one will definitely wear it with pleasure again and again, so pick your needles and devote some hours to knitting a baby hat and an infinity scarf based on this free knitting pattern.

Knitting materials and knitting tools:

<> 16″ circular needle in size 5 mm (US 8). You can use Double Pointed Knitting Needles as well;

<> Alize baby wool – 40% wool, 40% acrylic, 20% bamboo. Light blue color: 50 grams = 175 m. (192 yds.);

<> Arctic fox fur pom pom, size – 9-10 or 11-12 cm.

Garter stitch baby knitted hat size: 

Size: 6-18 months. (this pattern will fit smaller or bigger sizes due to that fact that garter stitch has a lot of stretch, not only vertically but horizontally as well).

Gauge: 16 stitches = 4 inches

Note for knitters:

Knit with three strands of yarn at once.

Common abbreviations of knitting stitches:

k – knit

p – purl

k2tog – knit two together

p2tog – purl two together

Garter stitch baby knit hat pattern:

Ribbing of the baby knit hat:

On the circular needles cast on 56 stitches. Place marker and join in the round. Be careful not to twist stitches.

Start ribbing [k1, p1] until piece measures 4 cm.

Work in garter stitch:

Round 1: knit;

Round 2: purl.

Repeat Rounds 1 and 2 until hat measures 10-11 cm from the edge.

Shaping the crown of the knit baby hat

Switch to Double Pointed Knitting Needles if it is hard for you to decrease on circular needles.

Round 1: *k6, k2tog – repeat from * to the end;

Round 2: purl;

Round 3: knit;

Round 4: *p5, p2tog – repeat from * to the end;

Round 5: knit;

Round 6: purl;

Round 7: *k4, k2tog – repeat from * to the end;

Round 8: purl;

Round 9: knit;

Round 10: *p3, p2tog – repeat from * to the end;

Round 11: knit;

Round 12: purl;

Round 13: *k2, k2tog – repeat from * to the end;

Round 14: purl;

Round 15: knit;

Round 16: *p1, p2tog – repeat from * to the end;

Round 17: knit.

Leave 10 cm tail and break yarn. Draw yarn through remaining stitches. Knot securely. Weave in ends.

This time I tried to use 2 small pom poms to make a little bear look. What do you think? Look at my experiment with different sizes and types of poms.

After I finished this hat I was so excited and decided to match a knit hat with same pattern infinity scarf. Small pompom on the scarf was added as a matching decoration to the hat. I hope you enjoy knitting with me and make your kids ready for the chilling season.