This is a woolen hat pattern for a ladies hat using Aran weight wool. It's my own pattern. Why? I had a hat like this for years then lost it. I liked the garter stitch band where hats are usually ribbed. Secondly the crown is high. So many wooly hats are conical and simply slide off the back of my head. This does not. It's squarish, like an Afghan style flat topped hat.
I saw what I was looking for here, on this video:
(230) How 2 Knit Hat With Flat Top - Fast Project 4 RIGHTIES - YouTube
To make my own pattern I followed this YouTube video:
(230) How to Knit a Hat Without a Pattern // Technique Tuesday - YouTube
Using my own dimensions the hat is for adult head size of 23 inches. Distance from ear to ear over top of head = 18inches so depth of hat needs to be half that, i.e. 9 inches.
Yarn is 100% wool and is Aran weight. The yarn used here is ColourLab clotted cream 1203 - 2635 Aran yarn.
Needles are No 9 or 3.75 mm double pointed needles; 4 needles
Test swatch is 24 rows of 18 stitches making it 4 inch x 4 inch square.
Size:
You need to calculate the number of stitches to cast on.
To calculate the number of stitches to cast on for 23 inch hat: Given 23 inches, subtract for negative ease, subtract 10% or 20.7 then multiply this by number of stitches per inch which for me is 4.5 stitches per inch. Therefore it works out to be 20.7x 4.5 = 93.15. I made this up to 96 because I wanted a number divisible by 4 for the 4 panels.
Pattern:
BAND or 'RIBBING':
CO 96 stitches
Row 1 K
Row 2 and 3 P
Repeat these 3 rows (K, P, P) 4 more times (or more if you want a deeper band). Finish on row 16.
Row 17 K
BODY
Row 18 starts the first of the 4 panels: (K 22 P2) 4 times (that is 88 + 8= 96 stitches) giving a stocking stitch panel with a garter stitch 'border' between them.
K 32 rows.
CROWN:
R 50 K this. This starts the crown by having 4 rows garter stitch making a 'lip or edge'.
R 51-54 P (garter stitch)
R55 Divide the 96 stitches into 5 sections of 19 stitches each. (Use separate DPN needles but you don't have to.) These form the base the of 5 triangles to form the crown. 19 x 5 is 95 so decrease one stitch from the worked rows of 96.
R56 to end: (K 17 2tog) 5 times. Keep decreasing in this way. The crown is fairly flat. To make more of a dome you would need to alternate a K row regularly? occasionally?!
Tie off at the end.
OPTION:
Line the inside from base to top of body (not the crown) with a piece of soft fabric e.g. a 'fleece' type making sure to stitch in place having made sure the hat with 'stretch' when you put it on your head.
Some photos, temporarily here, while I wait to get Ellie to model it for me.
This shows the white hat which is correct size and my first attempt which was too small, i.e. did not cast on the right number of stitches!
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