This hat is fun for grown men who really miss their baseball in the off-season, knitted as one size fits all, with some wool content for warmth during our Canadian winters.

The idea for this simple hat is loosely modelled after a combination of a baby baseball hat (https://www.allfreeknitting.com/Baby-Knit-Hats/Baseball-B... by Cassie May from littleredwindow.com) and an adult hat pattern made from a knitted rectangle (https://yayforyarn.com/easiest-knitted-hat/). It is knitted as a sock-like tube with the lining end left open until the end, allowing access to the wrong side of the hat to embroider on personalized baseball embellishments. Once the embroidery is complete, the open end of the lining is cinched up and secured with a few stitches at the inside top of the hat and the brim rolled up. Finished measurements allow for a 2 ½” brim.

Materials needed:

• 16” circular needles, US 6 / 4 mm
• Double pointed needles, US 6 / 4 mm
• Place marker
• Main colour - 100 g ball / 290 yds Light weight yarn (3) – Mochi Vintage DK Yarn (3 - Light) by Berroco
• Contrasting colour for baseball stitches – 50 g Claret Classic Wool Dk Superwash (3 - Light) by Patons
• Contrasting colour for baseball seam – 50 g Dark Grey Heather Classic Wool Dk Superwash (3 - Light) By Patons
• Tapestry needle
• Scissors

Notes re: Yarn Quantities:

• I actually used a little more than one ball/skein of the main colour to make the hat slightly larger/longer, considering lining and brim – e.g. 300 yds. If you are knitting only one hat, you can make it with one ball of main colour yarn. I didn’t mind going into a second ball of yarn, as I was making multiple hats.
• Only a few yards of contrasting colour yarns are used to embroider the baseball seams (grey), stitches and numbers/letters (red) on the finished hat. You may want to use the ends of balls of yarn on hand in the contrasting colours, else buy the smallest ball/length possible.