Baby Earflap Hat
Pattern: my own
Size: approx 6-18 mo
Yarn: For boy: Lana Grossa Easy Prints, color
olive, dark gray, creme mix, (100% merino
wool), bulky weight, 55 yards per 50 gram
skein For girl: Lion Brand Landscapes, color
Rose Garden, (50% acrylic, 50% wool), super
bulky weight, 55 yards/7.75 oz per skein
Needles: Clover Bamboo 16” circular size 10 and dpn size 10 and 7
Gauge: 3 st/inch
Started/finished: Approximately three hours to knit this hat
Washing Instructions: Hand wash and lay flat to dry (the Easy Print yarn is machine washable, but when I did
that with my first hat, the pom-pom semi-felted into a ball – okay if it is the look you want) Note: directions
given first are for the boy version, girl version follow in [brackets].
Knit hat body:
1. Using long-tail cast on method, cast on 50 st.
2. Place a marker and join, being careful not to twist the stitches
3. Knit ¾” garter [seed] stitch. When doing a garter stitch border, I like the way it looks the edge looks
when I start with a knit round.
4. Switch to stockinette stitch (knit every round) and knit even until hat measures 3 ¾” from cast on edge.
5. *Knit 8 stitches, k2tog*, continue to end of row
6. Knit 1 row even
7. *Knit 7 stitches, k2tog*, continue to end of row (you will probably need to switch to size 10 dpn at this
point)
8. Knit 1 row even
9. *Knit 6 stitches, k2tog*, continue to end of row
10. Knit 1 row even
11. *Knit 5 stitches, k2tog*, continue to end of row
12. Knit 1 row even
13. *Knit 4 stitches, k2tog*, continue to end of row
14. Knit 1 row even
15. *Knit 3 stitches, k2tog*, continue to end of row
16. Knit 1 row even
17. use darning needle to weave yarn end through the live stitches and pull tight
18. make a pom-pom, attach to top of hat and weave in all ends
Add earflaps:
1. fold hat in half and place a removable marker at the halfway points at the cast on edge.
2. You can either place the earflaps an equal distance apart, or you can place them slightly closer together
on one side there is a more clear “front” and “back”. To make them off center: count 4 stitches over
from one marker and pick up 12 stitches. If picking up stitches on a garter stitch border, pick up from
the outside of the hat (put your needles in from the outside and pull the yarn through from the inside),
and pick up slightly above the cast on edge (about a stitch higher than you normally would pick up
from). [If picking up from a seed stitch border, pick up from the INSIDE of the hat.] These tricks will
help make a more uniform look at the attachment point of the earflap.
3. knit 2 rows even [or knit seed stitch for 2 rows even]
4. k 2tog, k8 st, k2tog (see * below) [remember to knit in seed stitch, if necessary]
5. k even [or knit seed stitch]
6. k2tog, k6 st, k2tog [remember to knit in seed stitch, if necessary]
7. k even [or knit seed stitch]
8. k2tog, k4, k2tog [remember to knit in seed stitch, if necessary]
9. k2tob, k2, k2tog [remember to knit in seed stitch, if necessary]
10. k2tog, k2tog, (2 st left at end of this row) [remember to knit in seed stitch, if necessary]
11. switch to size 7 dpn and knit 10 inches of I-cord
12. bind off
13. Repeat steps 1-12 on the other side of the hat, remembering to place the earflap slightly off-center (if
you did so on the first side).
14. weave in all ends.
*Now, I know that ssk is techniqually the opposite of k2tog, but I didn’t like the way it looked when I used it.
Feel free to change the way you decrease to suite your own taste.