Scraptacular Bulky Hat

I love to knit hats with bulky weight yarn as gifts, see also my recently released Vendimia Hat. They’re quick to make and an easy project to take on the go. Coincidentally, this has resulted in many balls of leftover yarn in my stash that I refuse to toss. I designed Scraptacular to use up those beautiful balls of hand-dyed yarn in a happy marriage of frugality and hat knitting. The slipped stitches make the colorways blend together in new and interesting ways while also making the hat doubly squishy and thick, ready to face the worst blizzards mother nature has to toss at you.

Scraptacular was designed to use up many leftover balls of bulky weight yarn. You can use as many or as little colorways as you desire as long as there is always a Color A and a Color B. By the time I bound off the Adult Small sample hat, I had used three different colorways for Color A and two for Color B. When you reach the end of a ball, simply attach the next one using your favorite color-joining method. For this pattern, I used the Russian Join.

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About the Pattern

This pattern is well suited for advanced beginning knitters. If you are knitting this as a gift, the Adult Small will fit the heads of most women and the Adult Large will fit most men.

Required Skills: Knit; Purl; K2Tog; P2Tog; slip 1 stitch purlwise with yarn in front (sl 1 wyif); Work in the Round; Stripes-Colorwork.

Recommended Yarn: Two skeins of Lattes & Llamas Beefcake Yarn (100 grams/ 106 yards) in contrasting colorways or a comparable bulky weight yarn.

Adult Small sample is shown in ‘Punk Princess,’ ‘Honey Badger,’ and ‘Vintage Circus’ as Color A and ‘Prince Eric’s Eyes’ and ‘Raven’ as Color B.

Child sample is shown in ‘Vintage Circus’ as Color A and ‘Raven’ as Color B.

For sizes Child(Teen, Adult Small, Adult Large) you will need approximately 40(50, 60, 70) grams / 42(53, 64, 75) yards of Color A and 22(32, 42, 52) grams / 23(34, 45, 56) yards of Color B.

Needles: US9 /5.5 mm 16” circular needles and US11 / 8 mm 16” circular needles and DPNs or size needed to obtain gauge. You can also use long circular needles to work in magic loop.

If you’re really looking to stashbust, you could even hold DK or Worsted weight yarn double. The stashbusting possibilities are endless! That’s why this hat is Scraptacular. ::wink::

~ Jac

Semi-related, if you decide to put a pom pom on your niece’s hat that is nearly the size of her head, consider adding at least half an inch to the length/brim. That thing was so heavy, it was pulling at the hat and exposing her ears. I’ll probably end up picking up stitches at the brim and adding an inch to compensate for that ridiculous pom pom I couldn’t say no to at Joanns.