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So you’ve started knitting and have mastered the knit stitch (otherwise known as garter stitch). You’re feeling good, confident, ready for your next challenge.

Bring on the Easy Peasy Baby Hat

With this hat, you use 4 needles at a time, also known as knitting in the round. It’s easier than it sounds.

You simply knit using the garter stitch on one needle at a time, then move to the next needle. Here’s a great video how-to from Knittinghelp.com.

the specs

Yarn: Colinette Prism (about 2/3 skein)
Needles: 6mm (US 10)
Pattern: Easy Peasy Baby Hat
Difficulty: Post-scarf easy

I used only 60 stitches for my cast on instead of the 70 recommended. The finished result has a diameter of 5 inches, which I’m guessing is about the size of a one year old.

I made this for my friend Steph’s baby, Austin, who’s a year old. We’ll see how it fits.

What’s great is that you don’t have to decrease or do any other stitch. You don’t even have to sew, since the bind-off pulls the 2 sides together.

Colinette’s Prism Toscana

I had a blast doing this one. Colinette’s Prism yarn in Toscana doesn’t look like much as a skein in my opinion. But knitting up it’s gorgeous.

A more appropriate, if less poetic, name would be “Wildflower Meadow” because there’s the dominant colour is mossy yellow-green and straw colour.

The bits of colour are like bold wildflowers dotting the pasture.

Colinette’s colours are always a joy, and I definitely find the larger gauge yarns like 6mm and above are easier to knit with.

I’d love to hear about other easy patterns anyone can recommend.