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The Herringbone Hat is part of a series of three free stranded colourwork hat patterns by Anne Mizoguchi.
To knit the hat, I used Rowan Superfine Merino DK in the Aubergine and Sky colourways. This allowed for good practice in choosing colours for colour dominance. Since I am still relatively new to stranded knitting, I found I had the habit of using different colours but of similar values (like in my Laurus Hat). This resulted in the pattern not standing out as much as I had wanted. Therefore, I used this tutorial from Dianna Walla’s blog and on choosing contrasting colours. This allows for the pattern to really pop!
I added a detachable pom pom, which allows you to remove the pom pom if you want to wash the hat. Or, if you are just not into pom poms, you can leave it off permanently!
I knit the adult size using 2.25 mm and 3.25 mm 16-inch circular needles and dpns. As usual, the pattern recommends using smaller diameter needles for the ribbing, and the larger diameter needles for the colourwork. In total, I used 1.5 skeins of the purple, and .5 skeins of the light blue. This means this would be a great pattern for using up smaller bits of yarn you might have lying around!
I started knitting the decreases after just a few repeats of the herringbone pattern. If you wanted a slouchier hat however, or a fold up brim, you can easily knit more repeats of the stranded colourwork pattern.
The free Herringbone Hat pattern is available here.
You can purchase this finished Herringbone Hat, with detachable pompom, from our Etsy shop here.
It looks really pretty. I love the pompom on top. Thank you for sharing at The Really Crafty Link Party. Pinned.
Your hat is beautiful. The idea of a detachable pom pom is a really good one.
Great project I really like the herringbone pattern and the pom pom in a different color. I have been checking out the post of the blogger before me at the link parties and your post was right before mine and I am glad since your posts always inspire me. Happy Crafting, Kippi #kippiathome
Love it, and great to see you again on craft schooling sunday! Most of my contributers are crocheters, so really happy to have a knitter, and a fantastic one! all the best!
When you get to the crown shaping and get to k5,k2 together.and it says continue in this matter does that mean from now on you do a k5,k2 tog?
Hi Wanda,
The instructions mean to do a k5, k2tog until you get to the end of the round. Hope this helps!
Meinhilde
What a pretty pattern. I really like the purple that you used.
There is no gauge for your patterns. How many stitches per inch. Would love to try the pattern.
The gauge is listed on the Ravelry page as 22 stitches/10cm. You can find it here: https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/herringbone-hat-7
The pattern’s Ravelry page lists the gauge as 22 stitches/10 cm. You can find more info here: https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/herringbone-hat-7
The instructions give you the chart to follow, but when you get to the k5k2tog do you continue to do k5k2tog every row until you have 12 sts remaining or after the first time you complete the k5k2tog do you start from the instructions for the crown shaping again. Thank you
When a pattern says crown shaping that does a row k8,k2tog and the next row says k, then then next row says k7,k2 tog and the next row says k and the next row says k6,k2 tog and the next row says k5,k2tog repeat to end of round the it says continue decreasing in this manner does it mean to start the crown shaping from k8,k2 tog or does it mean to continue with k5,k2tog till you have 12 sts remaining
The pattern was a little confusing to me
After the first k5,k2together do you continue decreasing the k5,k2tog till there are 12 sts remains or do you start the crown shaping again with the first row being k8,k2togand do the decreases as stated in the pattern.
It means k5, k2tog then knit one row, then k4, k2tog, then knit one row, then k3, k2tog etc, continuing with decreasing the amounts of knit stitches. Hope that helps!