Even though it’s still hot where I live, you can feel autumn in the air. It was a hard summer, so I am looking forward to the slow melancholy of the season.
In this mood was that I started feeling the itch to knit something to celebrate the coming of the new season. I wanted to knit something that reminded me of the forest as it is now, of tree bark and pines, the forest just starting to turn darker and wetter as the year gets older.
It was fun to me to rummage through my stash and play with a few Holstgarn Supersoft leftovers and marl them together. If you want to make this, the knitting pattern is below.
September Forest Hat knitting pattern
Yarn: Hostgarn Supersoft, held double
Gauge: 18 stitches (st) for 10 cm in stockinette stitch (ss)
Notions: circular needle, double-pointed needle, sewing needle.
This is a one size pattern that has enough ease to fit different sizes of adult heads.
Cast on
Cast on 96 st, then join the round without twisting your stitches.
Hat rib
Knit in one by one rib for 10 rounds or 4.5 cm (or until you’re pleased with the height of your rib). One by one rib is knit by alternating between knit and purl stitches. So row one is K1, P1 to the end.
Hat body
Knit in stockinette stitch (so knit every stitch, each round) for 14 rounds (or another 6 cm). Your knitting piece is now 10.5 cm from the cast on.
Decrease row 1: knit 7, k2tog, until end of row
Next 3 rows, knit
Decrease row 2: knit 6, k2tog, until end of row
Next 3 rows, knit
Decrease row 3: knit 5, k2tog, until end of row
Next 2 rows, knit
Decrease row 4: knit 4, k2tog, until end of row
Next 2 rows, knit
Decrease row 5: knit 3, k2tog, until end of row
Next row, knit
Decrease row 6: knit 2, k2tog, until end of row
Next row, knit
Decrease row 7: k2tog, until end of row
Now cut off the thread, leaving a hand-to-elbow long tail, thread it through a needle, and then thread the needle through the remaining stitches, pulling the hat closed. Pull the tread towards the wrong side of your hat and weave in your ends. Weave in any other ends and wear with joy.
Variation for straight needles.
You can knit this hat in the same way on straight needles by knitting on the front side and purling on the wrong side. Make the decreases, as the pattern suggests, on the front side only.