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Today’s guest post and pattern are written by Mary Keenan of Hugs For Your Head. Make sure to stop by Mary’s blog for more inspiring free patterns.
Spin Cycle Hat
By Mary Keenan
It is so much faster to fall in love with yarn and buy it than to make something with it – have you noticed? But knitting this easy Spin Cycle Hat is almost as fast as the shopping.
That’s in part because Noro’s luxurious, bulky Odori yarn comes in a gorgeous variety of evolving-stripe colourways that resist any snap decisions – for example, in favour of just one skein, ahem.
Any of these would make gorgeous hats for so many people on my gift knitting list, and I bet they would for yours, too.
Materials:
- 1 skein of Noro’s Odori (40% Silk, 25% Wool, 25% Angora, 10% Mohair, 109yds/100g)
- 6 mm/US 10 – 1 set double pointed needles, or size to obtain gauge
- Stitch Marker
- Darning needle
Gauge:
13 sts, 16 rows = 4” in stocking stitch.
Finished Size:
(C = circumference, H = height)
S (17.75” C, 7.75” H), M (20” C, 8” H), L (22.25” C, 8.25” H).
Sample shown in M, stretched comfortably over a 22” head.
Abbreviations and Stitches Used:
K: knit
K2tog: K two sts together (decrease)
Kfb: K into front and back of next st (increase)
P: purl
st(s): stitch(es)
yo: yarn over (bring yarn to front to work next st.)
Notes:
To make a yo at the beginning of a double pointed needle, draw the working yarn under, then over the right needle before the next stitch.
Instructions:
Instructions are for size S (M, L). Cast on 48 (54, 60) sts, dividing over four needles in multiples of 2; place a marker for the start of the round with at least one set of 2 on either side, to secure it.
Band
Rounds 1-7: *K1, P1; repeat from * to end of round.
Round 8: *K3 (4, 4), Kfb, K3 (3, 4), Kfb; repeat from * to end of round – 60 (66, 72) sts
Body
Round 1: Knit.
Round 2: *yo, K2tog; repeat from * to end of round.
Repeat Rounds 1 and 2 nine times more.
Crown
Round 1: *K8 (9, 10), K2tog: repeat from * to end of rnd – 54 (60, 66) sts
Round 2: [yo, K2tog] 4 (5, 5) times, K1, [yo, K2tog] 0 (4, 0) times, K0 (1, 0);
repeat from * to end of rnd.
Round 3: *K7 (8, 9), K2tog; repeat from * to end of rnd – 48 (54, 60) sts
Round 4: *[yo, K2tog] 4 (4, 5) times, K0 (2, 0), [yo, K2tog] 0 (4, 0) times; repeat from * to end of rnd.
Round 5: *K6 (7, 8), K2tog; repeat from * to end of rnd – 42 (48, 54) sts.
Round 6: *[yo, K2tog] 3 (4, 4) times, K1, [yo, K2tog] 0 (3, 0) times, K0 (1, 0);
repeat from * to end of rnd.
Round 7: *K5 (6, 7), K2tog; repeat from * to end of rnd – 36 (42, 48) sts.
Round 8: *[yo, K2tog] 3 (3, 4) times, K0 (2, 0), [yo, K2tog] 0 (3, 0) times; repeat from * to end of rnd.
Round 9: *K4 (5, 6), K2tog; repeat from * to end of rnd – 30 (36, 42) sts.
Round 10: *[yo, K2tog] 2 (3, 3) times, K1, [yo, K2tog] 0 (2, 0) times, K0 (1, 0);
repeat from * to end of rnd.
Round 11: *K3 (4, 5), K2tog; repeat from * to end of rnd – 24 (30, 36) sts.
Round 12: *[yo, K2tog] 2 (2, 3) times, K0 (2, 0), [yo, K2tog] 0 (2, 0) times; repeat from * to end of rnd.
Round 13: *K2 (3, 4), K2tog; repeat from * to end of rnd – 18 (24, 30) sts- S ends here.
Round 14: *[yo, K2tog] – (2, 2) times, K– (1, 1), [yo, K2tog] – (1, 0) time, K– (1, 0);
repeat from * to end of rnd.
Round 15: *K– (2, 3), K2tog; repeat from * to end of rnd – – (18, 24) sts – M ends here.
Round 16: *[yo, K2tog] – (–, 2) times; repeat from * to end of rnd.
Round 17: * K– (–, 2), K2tog; repeat from * to end of rnd – – (–, 18) sts – L ends here.
Finishing
Cut an 8-10” tail, thread it through a darning needle; run it through last 18 sts. Pull tight, tack inside, and run in ends.
Hope you enjoy this pattern, or any of the others on my Free Patterns page at Hugs For Your Head. Happy knitting!
Tell us: How many skeins of yarn do you have in your stash?
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I am very confused by your pattern. Maybe it’s because it’s written for DPN and not circular needles. Could you please adapt this for circulars? I am not understanding your rows that say knit 0. The amount of stitches do not add up.
Thanks.
In my mind it shouldn’t be any different. Just be sure to put a marker at the beginning of the round. It makes no difference what needles you are using. It looks like you end a round by either knitting 1 or 0 depending on what size you do.
On Round 2 of the Crown it does say repeat from * but it does not show a * any where on that round. Perhaps that was an error. It probably should be at the beginning.
Carol, thanks for catching that! Yes, there should be a * at the beginning of Round 2 and I’ve now corrected that for the .pdf version (it’s at Hugs For Your Head, in case you want to download the pattern in an easily-printable format.)
Hi Cindy! The pattern is the same for circular needles, but you will need to switch to dpns for the crown as it decreases down to too few stitches, and since some knitters only have one set of needles in a size I specified how to make the marker work for them without having to move it between needles all the time. On a circular, the marker can’t fall off the end so it’s not an issue.
The pattern is written for three sizes – small, medium, and large – with the two larger sizes’ instructions in brackets. Where it says K0 (2, 0), that means that for sizes small and large you can ignore this small step, but for size medium you have to knit the next two stitches. That’s to keep the lace design intact across all the sizes, even though each of the three sizes starts with a different stitch count.
Toward the end of the pattern, you’ll also see instructions that are written K– (–, 18), for example; the ‘–‘ indicates that that particular size is finished and the remaining instructions are carrying on for the remaining size(s).
Hope this helps!
Mary
Is the pattern for 3 different sizes? Is that why there are two numbers in parenthesis??
Oh I just answered my own question by reading the top of the pattern! YES, Cindy, those numbers are for M and L sizes.
Does the asterisk at the beginning of round 1 mean you are to yo before starting?
Is there a way or pattern to make this hat crocheting instead of knitting? I love to crochet and had to cut down my stash for I was getting overwhelmed .
I actually have no idea how many skeins of yarn I have in my stash. I have so many boxes and totes with yarn in them that it could take me a week or longer to count them-then I still may not get them counted because I would get distracted and probably start another project (or 5).
Sooo happy to hear someone else say that LMSO! Just yesterday I was trying to kinda sort through and sorta count, but I found some pretty yarn I’d forgotten about – soooo now I have 2 bags of yarn on the floor by my couch, one project started and the other about to be. So much for sorting LOL
I too would like to know if you have this hat pattern in crochet? Thank you in advance. 🙂
Lynn and Peggy – I’m sorry to say I’m not fluent in crochet, and couldn’t even tell you what sort of stitch would give you the effect or shape of this hat. Maybe somebody who does have the knack will be inspired to come up with something similar!
Love the pattern, will try to cast it on next week. As for my stash count… I’d be afraid to try to count it.. but I can still walk in my tiny room, my bed is supported by crates that are full of beautiful yarns, I do sleep surrounded and supported by beautiful yarn, ahhh life is good!!
I couldn’t even try to count, I thought I would be very organized and put the yarn and pattern in a clear plastic container on shelves. I ran out of shelf room and containers. A closet in my sewing room is full of yarn and I have now started putting some in the attic. I always say if I live to be 110 and do nothing else but knit I can never use up all my yarn.
Mary,
I am a long time fan. You are so creative. I taught myself to knit and
I find your patterns and ideas to be so inspirational.
Thank you for being so kind in making so many of your patterns free.
Nancy
Oh Nancy, that is so sweet of you to say – thanks!
My stash is in 4 gray plastic bins, 1 holds only thread. I had to move from IL to DC so I took the center roll out and I made center pull balls with them. I put a contrasting bead on the end so that it would be easy to find. So much space saved when I did that! I gave mt St. Lous crochet group ideas. I have 1 tote filled wth red and green and white Christmas specialty yarns. That tote acts like a pillow at the end of my chaise part of the couch. I have a brown shopping tote filled with balls of gray and black yarn that were a wip trat was frogged and now are a knitting wip-squares of three colors. At the end of my coffee table is a box with puple and blue baby yarn. This is for a crochet wip for my son and his fiancé, a double layered afghan for a king size bed. I convinced her not to have it made in regular yarn since they live in Tucson and sleeping under two afghans would be a bit much!
I also fell in love once again w/crochet and yarn and discovered knitting is so less stressful.
I have 27 20 gal. bins full of asst yarns and a couple king size bedspread zip up bags they come in full of yarn!
Trying to save this pattern which was on the allfreeknitting.com website How do I save it and is it printable? thanks
Pretty patter. I think I have about 2oo skeins of yarn in my stash.
Would like to print and knit this hat but don’t want all the posting printed
Marion, there’s a .pdf format for this pattern at hugsforyourhead.com if you you’d rather have it in a one-page printout – just click on My Free Patterns and you’ll see it in the list!
How much yarn do I have . . . I am a member of the SABLE club – Stash Accumulation Beyound Life Expectency!
How do you print without getting all the comments?
Ann, if it helps there’s a .pdf version linked through the My Free Patterns tab at hugsforyourhead.com!
Hi Mary et al fellow stash (busted) gang members! I’d be embarrassed to answer, even if I could count that high, how many skeins…? I too belong to SABLE club 🙂 As for printing clean copies, I just love Print Friendly, a free downloadable program for printing/creating pdfs from any webpages a heart desires. Just search ‘print friendly free download’ and it should come up for you easily.
Happy knitting, and thank you to Mary and other wonderful sharers out there for all the gorgeous free patterns that enable so many of us to follow our bliss!
Caroline, Australia
I have a question on the very first direction. I don’t understand what “by twos” means and making sure there is at least one set of two on each needle? I have done lots of projects on 4 needles but usually it gives the number of sts to cast on and then divided equally. Any help would be appreciated. Stash yarn? Waaaaay too much!! But I did find a place that accepts 11 inch squares knitted or crocheted to give to homeless folks, so I use up quite a bit of my stash that way and don’t feel guilty buying more!
Why can’t this be knit with a pair of knitting needles.
Can you make this hat them sew it up? If not why? About 23 bun of yarn