The My Lucky Hat knitting pattern is now available on Ravelry!
My Lucky Hat is available in four sizes with your choice of two brim styles and three different charts: Lucky, Kiss Me, and Beer Me.
If you prefer a fitted hat, the pattern is adjustable in the body to create a snug, beanie-style fit. These hats look great with or without a pom pom, and I’ve got a tassel in the works that I think will be adorable! I’ll be sure to share photos and instructions if it turns out as cute as it is in my head.
If you’re new to colorwork, this is a very approachable pattern. There are only 7 rounds of two-color knitting.😉
If you’d like to skip right to the details and the Improved SSK (Slip Slip Knit) video, a quick scroll down the page will get you there.
If you’re up for a quick story about Irish-American history in upstate New York, keep reading.☘️
Once upon a time, I lived in a tiny apartment on Tipperary Hill in Syracuse, New York. Tipp Hill, as it’s known locally, has a unique claim to fame: it’s home to the only traffic light in the United States with the green light on the top and the red on the bottom.
Really? Really.
Tipp Hill was once home to a large Irish population that settled in the area after helping to build the Erie Canal. Legend has it that when the original traffic light was installed in the early 1900s, local boys repeatedly smashed the red light, saying that (British) red should never be above (Irish) green. The light was finally replaced with an inverted traffic light: green on top and red on the bottom.
Tipperary Hill boasts multiple Irish pubs, many within walking distance of the famed light. Each year, Coleman’s Irish Pub hosts Green Beer Delivery Day. The streets are filled with music and people swathed in green as a giant tanker truck full of green beer arrives, and everyone celebrates their Irish (even if just for a day) heritage.
It’s been a while since I celebrated Green Beer Delivery Day, but as I was working on the My Lucky Hat design, it brought back the memory so vividly that I couldn’t resist sharing!
I hope you enjoy the pattern and I can’t wait to see what you create with it.☘️
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As promised, for more details on why this stitch works, you can watch Patty Lyons video on the Improved SSK here.
My Lucky Hat Pattern Details:
Size: 1 (2, 3, 4); to fit Child (Teen/Small Adult, Adult, Large Adult).
Finished circumference: 15.25 (17.5, 19.5, 21.75)”/ 38 (44, 49, 54.5)cm, blocked and unstretched.
Finished height: 7 (8.5, 9.5, 10.5 )”/ 17.5 (21, 24, 26)cm from cast-on edge of the flat brim or from the fold (the midpoint of the ribbing) of the folded brim.
To be worn with 0 – 3”/ 0 – 7.5cm of negative ease.
Needles: US 5/ 3.75mm or size to obtain gauge, in 16”/ 40cm circular and DPNs; and US 4/ 3.5mm or 0.25 – 0.5mm smaller than gauge needle, in 16”/ 40cm circular.
If you are new to colorwork or tend to knit more tightly when working a colorwork chart, you may want to go up a needle size from your gauge needle for the colorwork section.
Gauge: 22 sts and 28 rnds = 4”/ 10cm in Stockinette Stitch.
Yarn: dk weight:
MC: 88 – 222 yards/ 80 – 203 meters; and
CC: 18 – 32 yards/ 17 – 29 meters.
Notions: stitch markers, tapestry needle.
Samples knit in: Olive & Two Ewe Homer and Olive & Two Ewe Hawthorne.
1 skein MC: Olive & Two Ewe Homer (80% Superwash Merino, 10% Cashmere, 10% Nylon; 231 yards/ 100g)
1 skein CC: Olive & Two Ewe Hawthorne (75% Superwash Merino, 25% Nylon; 49 yards /20g)
I used the Wool You Be Mine Deluxe version of the Lonely Hearts Club Kit to create this design. If you would like a kit, they are available for a very limited time in the Nomadic Knits online shop.
As always, you can knit your version in any yarn that makes you happy!
To purchase your copy of My Lucky Hat, click here! ☘️
