WIP Wed - Baby Hats

Baby hats for everyone! Or at least a bunch of my coworkers/friends that are pregnant.  I know four pregnant ladies at the moment who are all due this fall/winter. So, I have been working on some little baby hats.  I wanted to do something simple, that would be good for all of them (two girls and two ?'s, plus various mommy style's), and still not be a complete bore to knit. I have priorities!

In the Loop had some of the wonderful Swans Island Organic Superwash Sport (Snowy Owl, Edgecomb Grey and Truffle) and people were talking about making the Little Fair Isle Baby Hat by Purl Soho.  This yarn is absolutely scrumptious.  It is super super soft and squishy. You would think it was a match made in heaven, except I am not a big color work knitter.  It's something I would love to be good at but I hate practicing.

I didn't want to do stripes or solids for all four.  And, I think I can get four hats out of the three skeins.  I decided to try some simple color work in between the stripes on the first one.

I found the site tricksyknitter.com and was able to make my own charts to use. The chart maker is incredibly easy to use.  It includes a bunch of different colors that you can customize, plus you can change the number of rows and stitches.

I made two charts so far:

I finished this ombre-like stripe hat and it just needs to block.  The parts with the color work do pull in a little. I'm hoping it comes out with blocking.  If it doesn't next time I'll going up a needle size.

Now I am working on a simple stripe pattern because I was able to knit during a business lunch but needed something simple. It's five rows dark taupe, four rows light taupe, 5 rows cream, 4 rows light taupe, repeat.

The third one I'm going to do is a chevron inspired pattern for one of the soon to be mothers that has chevron curtains in the baby's room. I'm hoping I can figure out 3 colors in a row or I might have to change it to be white/truffle chevrons then white/light taupe, then truffle/light taupe, we shall see.....