Children’s hats should be fun and playful. I chose to model this hat on a beehive. The hat itself is knitted in a beehive shape and finished with a bee dangling from an Icord. Since the design is so flexible, the pattern provides for different ways of finishing the crown, from a fanciful bee to a simple flat crown. The hat is suitable for a wide range of sizes and personalities.

You will need one skein of yarn in the primary color and several yards of black or a contrasting color for the bee dangle.

Techniques Used

• German Twisted Cast On
• Knitting in the Round
• Icord
• Simple striped colorwork

Additional Materials

• Markers
• Tapestry Needle
• Polyfil

The pattern provides both standard written directions and directions using a shorthand notation I developed. More information on this notation can be found at Mathematical Shorthand Notation.