It started with talk of a baby hat for Matt’s co-worker, who is due to have her first child in less than a week. I wanted to do a simple baby hat to tuck into the gift package. In looking up head circumferences, I saw a sketch of one of those hats with two points and tassles – you know what I am talking about? Because I can’t find the name for it. It lays completely flat when not worn. They look a little goofy. They are often made for children.
Anyway, I wanted to make one of those. But I wasn’t sure if I wanted to knit it flat and sew up or knit in the round and graft the top so I started searching Ravelry (to no avail – what are they called?!)…
Matt dreams big. He wanted a baby knit for his co-worker that used binary because both she and her husband are geeks. I searched “baby knit binary” and look what I found! Nrrrdbaby binary hat!
Too perfect!
Yes. Too perfect because the designer doesn’t provide a pattern. This wouldn’t be hard to reverse engineer – and indeed I made notes to that effect – but I almost lost sight of the fact that this was supposed to be QUICK. And SIMPLE. Gah.
Back to my original plan for a plain, WARM hat.
Ah, that’s more like it. Free pattern here: Square Baby. It is also available on Ravelry. It knits up in less than 3 hours – talk about instant gratification.
I’ll save the quirky binary hat for my own child-of-geek. I guess that makes the binary hat #9 in my parade of baby knits. Ha!
Cute Hat! Funny coincidence: I just made something a lot like this for the Knit One, Save One Campaign–made it up as I went along and then 3-needle-bound-off the top edge (easier than sewing). Your pom-poms are nicer than the ones I made, though..boo, hoo!
Somehow this was way less thought for me than a traditional round hat, for which there are millions of patterns and I could never pick one. No decreases, no textural patterning. Now I fear I won’t be able to stop at just one…
Momer wants a sea green one with rainbow tassels!
Get your game on, Grandma! I have a husband-sweater to work on…
uhm…we must be all on the same wavelength cuz this is one I just found…http://www.goodknit.net/pages/fpat.html
Wow, Lori, that is damn near the same pattern except knit flat and sewn up. Well, whew. I thought I was loose a screw when I couldn’t find a pattern for one of these. But there was only so long I was willing to search.