How to...knit a simple baby hat.. for charity!

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 8^th st. Continue 3 rows st st.

Starting the next knit row, decrease every 7^th st. Continue 3 rows st st.

Starting the next knit row, decrease every 6^th st. Continue 3 rows st st.

Starting the next knit row, decrease every 5^th st. Purl one row.

Starting the next knit row, decrease every 4^th st. Purl one row.

Starting the next knit row, decrease every 3^rd 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.