It’s the middle of December. I don’t think, at this point, it’s correct to suggest that “Winter is Coming.” It’s here. As is the gift-giving season.
In both cases, a hat seems entirely appropriate. A hat-knitting project at this time of year meets so many needs: protection for delicate ears in cold weather, a last-minute gift, or just relaxing knitting for stressful family visits, road trips in bad weather, or long relaxing evenings in front of the fire/fireplace channel/beach scenes from YouTube.
My Custom-Fit Hats workbook, available in ebook and printed format from Digits & Threads publisher Nine Ten Publications, offers a top-down approach to hat knitting so that you can more easily knit to fit, use up leftovers, and get the length right. One of my motivations for developing this method was an attempt to solve the problem of the too-long or too-short hat—a minor but surprisingly annoying issue.
The workbook allows you to grab any yarn and knit for any head, sizing as you go. But while there’s a time and place for a custom fit, there’s also a time for having a set pattern with numbers to follow, no fuss no muss.
So, here I present my Get-the-Length-Right Top-Down Hat, sized for babies and kids, in sock and worsted weight yarns.
Featured image and flat lay image of three hats by Gale Zucker; hat in progress image by Kate Atherley.
