Watermelon Hat by Fa-li Toung

Watermelon Hat

Knitting
November 2013
DK (11 wpi) ?
22 stitches = 4 inches
in stockinette
US 5 - 3.75 mm
50 - 150 yards (46 - 137 m)
Prem, newborn, baby, toddler
English
This pattern is available for NZ$8.00.

Here are 10 patterns for hats resembling various fruits and vegetables. A brief background to the idea: The kids said something about wearing an apple on their head after watching Robin Hood. Thus this entire concept came from a preschooler who watched too much tv and turned it into a game of who knew the most fruit and vegetables. Here are some of the ones they’ve came up with… plus a pomegranate just for fun.

All fruit are classed as easy and suitable for confident beginners except Pineapple.

Watermelon is knitted in the round and requires simple colour changes, uses k2tog decreases for shaping at the crown, simple ribbing at the brim and some embroidering to add the black seeds.