Easy Knitted Hat – FREE Pattern

Knitting a hat can be a fun project for beginner knitters. This knitted hat is one of the first hats I knitted. I actually knitted it for my husband, but I have worn it a lot too.

Easy Knitted Hat Pattern

This hat is made with yarn suitable for needles size 3,5. I used yarn made of wool, you can choose the material you prefer.

If you choose to use a yarn made of wool, it’s good to choose merino wool, for example, or another wool yarn that isn’t itchy. If a hat is itchy, I can feel it on my forehead when I’m wearing it, and it makes me choose another hat instead.

Cast on 132 sts and divide on four double-pointed needles(size 3,5) or a circular needle(size 3,5).

Start knitting rib pattern(1 twisted knit, 1 purl). The twisted knit is knitted through the back loop.

Keep knitting until the knitted piece measures around 16 cm. Then it is time to start decreasing.

First, a decrease is made every other row. It is easier to have the sts decided on four different needles with 33 sts on each when you are decreasing.

How To Decrease Stitches When Knitting A Hat

Knit the first two sts together through the front loop and the last two sts together through the back loop on each needle.

Knit one row without decreasing.
Knit one row with decreasing as earlier described.
Knit one row without decreasing.
Knit one row with decreasing.
Knit one row without decreasing.

From now on, decreasing is made on every row until 2 sts remain on each needle. Cut the yarn and pull it through the stitches.

This is my favorite way to decrease a knitted hat. I think it looks quite neat. But all knitters, I guess, find their own favorite way to knit things.

Knitting Basic Accessories

If you haven’t noticed, I am in a phase where I am knitting a lot of basic accessories. I am keeping it really basic because I have noticed that the knitted pieces that I reach for over and over again are actually the really basic ones.

So right now I am knitting some basics for myself, and I will keep doing that for the other family members in our family as well.

I hope you are having a really nice knitting season. Right now, it’s snowy outside where we live, so I think it’s just the perfect season for knitting right now.

If you are interested in some other basic knitting patterns, here are some links for some knitting patterns on basic socks: https://underbartskapad.com/basic-sock-knitting-pattern/

Hope you will have a nice time knitting, and hope to see you again soon!