Knit For Your Charity
Knit these VERY simple little brand new baby hats for your friends or for a charity (Special Care Baby Unit, Breast feeding Cafe, NHS antenatal education, teenage pregnancy groups).You may find someone is going overseas? Or I can send them to Nepal. I'll happily take the hats or the donations. Just mail me.
Enjoy.
Simple newborn baby hat.
I’ve used typical baby double knitting wool. One ball will
make quite a few hats. For this wool, I used 3 and 3/4mm needles. You’ll also
need a darning needle to sew the sides together at the end.
The idea of these hats is that they can go straight onto a
cold baby straight after birth. They need to be tiny. If they are REALLY too
tiny (and the eventual size will depend on the wool, the needles and your knitting
style) they’ll still be welcomed for premature babies.
Cast on 40 stitches (st). Knit 6 rows. Starting stocking
stitch (st st = knit one row, purl one row), continue for another 12 or so
rows.
Starting the next knit row, decrease every 8th
st. Continue 3 rows st st.
Starting the next knit row, decrease every 7th
st. Continue 3 rows st st.
Starting the next knit row, decrease every 6th
st. Continue 3 rows st st.
Starting the next knit row, decrease every 5th
st. Purl one row.
Starting the next knit row, decrease every 4th
st. Purl one row.
Starting the next knit row, decrease every 3rd
st. Purl one row.
Starting the next knit row, decrease every other st. Purl
one row.
You’ll be left with a very few stitches. We’ll not split
hairs over the exact amount. You can either cast off at this point, or continue
to decrease then cast off which will leave a little ‘pixie’ tail for a bobble.
Have fun improvising with colours, stripes, blobs, different stitches and
finishes. The hat then just needs to be sewn up the two sides.
