Baby Minion Hat

Many people have become familiar with my Despicable Me Minion Hat Pattern. Now we have a a slightly revamped version for the little minion in your life.

All I did to mix this up was start with less stitches than I did in the adult sized one. I started with 54 stitches and basically guessed my way through the rest of the hat. I will say I think it turned out adorable.

Boba Fett Hat Pattern

I was asked for a Boba Fett hat approximately a year ago. It was supposed to be a Christmas gift 2009. That obviously didn't happen unless I was severely behind on my blogging. Nope, just severely behind on my projects.

Fast forward to 2010. I decided it was time to buckle down and pump this hat out. Turns out waiting this long and mulling over a projects makes it better. I was so happy with how this hat turned out.

It is a very basic hat design with some colorwork on it. I tried to make it as simple as possible because I had so many projects to do.

To go into a little bit more detail on the colorwork I simply switched colors, making sure I twisted the strand when changing colors as to not have a hole. VERY IMPORTANT! Then once I was finished I tied the loose end up and trimmed them. I also attempted burning them slightly to make sure the knots stayed. This worked for me but can be risky.

What you need:

Worsted weight green, black and maroon yarn.

darning needle

size 10 circular needle

stitch marker

Boba Fett Hat Pattern

Cast on 80 stitches

Join in the round making sure not to twist your stitches.

Round 1-3: Green 30, Maroon 6, Black 8, Maroon 6, Green 30. I worked these rounds in a K2, P2 pattern to the end.

Round 4-6:Continue in the same colorwork pattern as stated above with Knit the entire round (take out the Purl stitches)

Round 7-9: Maroon K36, Black K8, Maroon K36

Round 10-12: Black K to end

Round 13-15: Maroon K to end

Round 15- desired length of hat: Green K to end of round (I made my hat coming to about the middle of my ears aprox 5-6in.)

Decrease Rounds:

Round 1: *K8 K2tog* to end of round

Round 2 and all other even rounds: K

Round 3: *K7 K2tog* to end of round

Round 5: *K6 K2tog* to end of round

Round 7: *K5 K2tog* to end of round

Round 9: *K4 K2tog* to end of round

Round 11: *K3 K2tog* to end of round

Round 13: *K2 K2tog* to end of round

Round 15: *K2tog* to end of round

Take darning needle and tie off remain stitches and weave in ends.

Minion Hat Pattern

To start, I love, love, LOVE the minions from Despicable Me. I think it's an adorable movie and wanted a minion hat so badly. Cue new pattern.

I so badly wanted to start on this before Christmas but I refrained. It was hard trust me. As many knitters know you get a new idea and want to start on it ASAP instead of doing projects you need to finish. Typical wants vs. needs! Go figure.

Anyways. I decided my easiest route was to knit a simple beanie hat and then add the details by crocheting them and attaching them to the hat. For people that only crochet or only knit I apologize.

Items needed:

(for hat)

Bright yellow yarn worsted weight

Size 10 circular needles

(for embellishments)

Gray yarn worsted weight

White yarn worsted weight

Black yarn worsted weight

Size J crochet hook

Darning needle

Batting (opt)

Hat Pattern

Cast on 76 stitches. Join round careful not to twist.

Round 1-5: *K2, P2* to end of round

Round 6+: K in round till hat is at desired length (usually 5-6 in before you begin decreases)

Decrease Rounds:

Round 1: Decrease by 6 stitches evenly throughout the round

Round 2 and all other even rounds: K

Round 3: *K7 K2tog* to end of round

Round 5: *K6 K2tog* to end of round

Round 7: *K5 K2tog* to end of round

Round 9: *K4 K2tog* to end of round

Round 11: *K3 K2tog* to end of round

Round 13: *K2 K2tog* to end of round

Round 15: *K2tog* to end of round

Take darning needle and tie off remain stitches and weave in ends.

Eyes: (make 2)

Round 1: With black yarn: Ch 3. DC11 into 3rd ch from hook (2 ch counts as one DC totaling 12 in one chain)

Round 2: Continue to work but with the white yarn. Ch 2. *2DC in first ch, DC in next ch* continue to end of round. (total 18 chs)

Round 3: Ch 2. SC in each SC all the way around

Now your eye should be rounded as to create room for some batting.

Goggle: (make 1 after making eyes)

These were pretty easy. There are two different ways that these could be done. By doing one eye at a time, or do both at once (as I did in the picture above).

Join gray yarn were white ended. DC in each ch around eye. Then take second eye and with the SAME yarn strand DC into a ch onto the second eye. Then continue to DC all the way around the second eye as you did the first.

After you are finished, Just kind of move the yarn around until it is flipped up around the eyes. This will create an almost 3D effect to it.

Then take your black yarn and ch 5. DC in the 3rd ch. and DC one into each of the following ch (3 DC total).

*Ch 2. DC one into each of the following 3 chs.* Continue making this small band until it fits around the middle of your yellow hat.

Now all we need to do is attach everything! I simply took a darning needle and attached everything. Make sure you're careful because things can end up looking crooked with the black band. The best way to do it is draw a small guide on the actual hat and then sew over the line.

As for the eyes, those are pretty simple. Just make sure you put a small amount of batting to fill out the eyes.

Then that's it! You will have one of the most amazing little hats ever!

Nauti Knitter: Swartz's A Christmas Story Cap

Well in the past month, probably longer, I have been doing a TON of knitting for Christmas presents. Sadly, that means my blog posts have been nonexistent. I do however have a great project to show you right now!

I had seen this hat a very long time ago and always thought how adorable it was. However, I would never waste my time making it because I would never wear it nor know someone that would wear it. I was proven wrong on the latter because a mom at my church asked me if I could possibly knit this hat for her son. I excitedly agreed and was very pleased with the outcome.

My luck got even better when I finished the hat. My brother and one of his friends were home for me to take pictures of them modeling my hat. My only regret is I did not take one in front of our Christmas tree.

As for the actual pattern, I thought it was a very easy pattern and actually knit up fairly quick, considering how long the hat tail is.

Now onto more of the pictures!

This last one might be my favorite picture! It reminded me of Horton Hears a Who!

Well this will be my final post before the New Year! Hope everyone had a safe and Merry Christmas!

R2D2 Hat

This was one of the three R2D2 hats I made for some of the boys I know that are big Star Wars fans. There are a few different ways that you can make a beanie like this. I tried a few different options and will continue to post pictures and methods I used for these hats. This was my first attempt. Although it came out a little bit smaller than I had anticipated it still fit my 10 yr old brother, who loved this.

Darth Vader Hat

This was a hat I made for my friend Steven. He loves Darth Vader! I sent this hat over to him in Iraq for Christmas this year.

This hat was knit on sz 8 needles. I made the duplicate stitch pattern myself and did the duplicate stitching in gray and black yarn.