Hat knitting pattern "My Stripes" for children and adults

Stripes, what fun! An easy-to-knit hat in fingering weight yarn, which gives you lots of possibilities to use your own favorite colors.

Skills Required / What You'll Receive

Difficulty level: easy (knit and purl, working in the round on DPNs or circular needles)

Gauge: 27 stitches/42 rows in stitch pattern (unstretched) = 10cm/4in.

• knit and purl
• m1: make 1 (insert left-hand needle from front to back under the strand of yarn after the stitch just worked and knit this new stitch through the back loop)
• knit 2 stitches together

Size Information

Child and adult medium, 40, 45cm (16, 18in) circumference; 17, 20cm (6 3/4, 8in) in length. The stitch pattern is stretchy.

Materials List

Yarn: Lang Yarns Jawoll Superwash 75/25 (75% wool, 25% nylon; 209m/50g; 229yds/1.76oz), 1 skein of each color. Sample in adult size used 88m (96yds) of color 1 (red) and 113m (123yds) of color 2 (white).

Needles: 3.5mm/US 4 set of 5 DPNs or circular needles

Notions: yarn needle, 1 stitch marker (optional, only needed when using circular needles)

Additional Details by the Author

You may notice that I am not a native English speaker. All my patterns are tested or edited or both by native speakers. You will also find my contact info in each pattern. Please don't feel shy to ask questions if anything is unclear. I may be in another time zone than you, but will get back to you as soon as possible.

The pattern itself is copyrighted and may not be distributed. Feel free to do whatever you like with your finished items. Gift them, donate them to charity or sell them.