Bella Hat Pattern
The Story of the Bella Hat: (pattern below)
My best friend has this absolutely ginormous family. (Seriously. It's been ten years and I'm still meeting people I've never seen before.) That absolutely ginormous family of hers all live in and around the New Orleans area, so when Katrina hit on August 29, 2005, more than one family home and all of the contents were lost to flood waters or storm surge. Contents that included handmade heirlooms that had been in the family for quite some time.
Enter two pregnant bellies in July of 2006: mine and my best friend's cousin. I was itching to make baby things, but still had no way of knowing if I was having a boy or a girl, and I hated to make androgynous green and yellow things. Such sickly colors for a baby. My best friend's cousin, on the other hand, not only knew she was having a girl, but had also lost her entire home to storm surge when the hurricane rolled in to town the year before. The waters took it all, including the handmade blankets and layette pieces she'd saved from her son's birth.
You can pretty much guess where this is going: a knitter, some pink yarn, and a cause! After completing the Lace and Fans Baby Afghan from a Lesiure Arts book I'd picked up, I was hankering for more of a baby fix and to use up the remaining pink yarn, since I'd learned by then that I was having a boy. Next came booties from a free pattern found on the web. Of course, it still wasn't enough! I search and searched to find a baby hat that a) I liked, b)used the yarn I had, and c) matched the other pieces in the set. That search was in vain. So, in true knitterly style, I made one up. Thus we have the Bella Hat, named for the baby the pattern was developed for.
Bella Hat
Fits a full term newborn (head size 12-18 inches)
worsted weight yarn
US Size 8 needles (5.00mm)
Cast on 75 stitches. Work knit 1 purl 1 rib for one inch. Knit one round, all through back loops to produce one round of twisted stitches. Place marker.
Pattern stitch:
Row 1: *k1, yo, k1, p4, p2tog x2, p4, k1, yo* repeat around
Row 2: knit around (repeat for rows 4, 6, 8, and 10)
Row 3: *k1, yo, k2, p3, p2tog x2, p3, k2, yo* repeat around
Row 5: *k1, yo, k3, p2, p2tog x2, p2, k3, yo* repeat around
Row 7: *k1, yo, k4, p1, p2tog x2, p1, k4, yo* repeat around
Row 9: *k1, yo, k5, p2tog x2, k5, yo* repeat around
Work pattern until you have two rows of fans (one on top of the other).
Begin decrease rows:
Row 1: *k1, yo, k5, ssk (slip one knitwise, slip one purlwise, knit together through back loops), k2tog, k5,yo* repeat around
Row 2: k6, ssk, k2tog, *k11, ssk, k2tog* x4, k4
Row 3: *k1, yo, k4, ssk, k2tog, k4,yo* repeat around
Row 4: k5, ssk, *k9, ssk, k2tog* x4, k4
Row 5: *k1, yo, k3, ssk, k2tog, k3,yo* repeat around
Row 6: k2 *ssk x2, k2tog x2, k3* x4, ssk x2, k2tog x2, k1
Row 7: ssk x2, *k2tog x2, k1, ssk* x4, sl1
Row 8: *ssk, k2tog* x5 (10 stitches remaining)
Graft remaining stitches and weave in ends.
My best friend has this absolutely ginormous family. (Seriously. It's been ten years and I'm still meeting people I've never seen before.) That absolutely ginormous family of hers all live in and around the New Orleans area, so when Katrina hit on August 29, 2005, more than one family home and all of the contents were lost to flood waters or storm surge. Contents that included handmade heirlooms that had been in the family for quite some time.
Enter two pregnant bellies in July of 2006: mine and my best friend's cousin. I was itching to make baby things, but still had no way of knowing if I was having a boy or a girl, and I hated to make androgynous green and yellow things. Such sickly colors for a baby. My best friend's cousin, on the other hand, not only knew she was having a girl, but had also lost her entire home to storm surge when the hurricane rolled in to town the year before. The waters took it all, including the handmade blankets and layette pieces she'd saved from her son's birth.
You can pretty much guess where this is going: a knitter, some pink yarn, and a cause! After completing the Lace and Fans Baby Afghan from a Lesiure Arts book I'd picked up, I was hankering for more of a baby fix and to use up the remaining pink yarn, since I'd learned by then that I was having a boy. Next came booties from a free pattern found on the web. Of course, it still wasn't enough! I search and searched to find a baby hat that a) I liked, b)used the yarn I had, and c) matched the other pieces in the set. That search was in vain. So, in true knitterly style, I made one up. Thus we have the Bella Hat, named for the baby the pattern was developed for.
Bella HatFits a full term newborn (head size 12-18 inches)
worsted weight yarn
US Size 8 needles (5.00mm)
Cast on 75 stitches. Work knit 1 purl 1 rib for one inch. Knit one round, all through back loops to produce one round of twisted stitches. Place marker.
Pattern stitch:
Row 1: *k1, yo, k1, p4, p2tog x2, p4, k1, yo* repeat around
Row 2: knit around (repeat for rows 4, 6, 8, and 10)
Row 3: *k1, yo, k2, p3, p2tog x2, p3, k2, yo* repeat around
Row 5: *k1, yo, k3, p2, p2tog x2, p2, k3, yo* repeat around
Row 7: *k1, yo, k4, p1, p2tog x2, p1, k4, yo* repeat around
Row 9: *k1, yo, k5, p2tog x2, k5, yo* repeat around
Work pattern until you have two rows of fans (one on top of the other).
Begin decrease rows:
Row 1: *k1, yo, k5, ssk (slip one knitwise, slip one purlwise, knit together through back loops), k2tog, k5,yo* repeat around
Row 2: k6, ssk, k2tog, *k11, ssk, k2tog* x4, k4
Row 3: *k1, yo, k4, ssk, k2tog, k4,yo* repeat around
Row 4: k5, ssk, *k9, ssk, k2tog* x4, k4
Row 5: *k1, yo, k3, ssk, k2tog, k3,yo* repeat around
Row 6: k2 *ssk x2, k2tog x2, k3* x4, ssk x2, k2tog x2, k1
Row 7: ssk x2, *k2tog x2, k1, ssk* x4, sl1
Row 8: *ssk, k2tog* x5 (10 stitches remaining)
Graft remaining stitches and weave in ends.
2 Comments:
LOVE the hat!! One question: do you end the row with a YO?
Karen
Thank you.
Technically, I guess it is ending the row on a YO, but since it's knit in the round, there's no funky transition of trying to turn and go back with it.
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