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Hive
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.
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- First published: December 2012
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