Keep warm while looking your best with these modern crocheted hat designs! They are fast and fun to crochet in gorgeous yarns. Make a bunch in your favorite colors, and you'll have a hat to match whatever you wear. A variety of stitch patterns keep the work interesting, and detailed instructions ensure you know exactly how to work each stitch.

Every knitter will adore these timeless, fashionable, and extremely wearable hats, all photographed on models in a chic urban setting. Most of the projects involve knitting in the round, so a thorough overview explains the technique, as well as basic hat forms, choosing a yarn, and accessible techniques such as felting. Try a shaped ribbon yarn hat with equally decorative and functional earflaps. A simple brimmed felted wool hat becomes a fashion statement with a brightly colored decorative edging. Whip up a chunky seed stitch cap in just a matter of hours. Even the simplest designs are stylish, using great color combinations and yarns with irresistible textures. And, because the patterns come with both medium and large sizes, you can knit to fit.

International hat-knitting icon Woolly Wormhead is known for her unique, innovative hat designs and is followed the world over by avid fans. This collection of her work includes patterns for 22 of her designs: 12 patterns for women, 5 men’s designs, and 5 hats for kids. The special elements in her designs—such as cables, textures, and colorwork—mixed with the “how'd she do that” types of construction she is famous for, are what set her designs apart and make them extra-fun to knit. In this book, Woolly also gives plenty of hat-knitting tips, as well as helpful hints on how to choose your most flattering hat style. Grab some gorgeous yarn, choose a favorite hat pattern, and cast on!

Embrace the hottest head-turning fashion accessory: the knitted hat. The clever designs of Weekend Hats will have enthusiastic knitters everywhere rejoicing in yearâ€"round hat style. Cecily Glowik MacDonald and Melissa LaBarre have brought you the best in designer knit hat patterns all in one beautiful and fun-loving collection. Inside you'll find: • Expert advice to spark the interests of a variety of skill levels with special attention paid to exploring cables, lace, color, and texture. • Twenty-five contemporary designer hat patterns that range from the distinctly feminine to the sporty gentlemen, including cloches, berets, beanies, tams, snoods, and more! • Tips and tricks on how to maximize the use of specialty yarns and accessories to add a little panache to your designs. All the designs in Weekend Hats are ideal projects for travel, gifts, or sneaking in between larger knit projects. Whether you're interested in comfort, style, or just knitting enjoyment, Weekend Hats is your all-in-one resource for creating want-to-wear knitted caps.

The seed stitch is still one of the simplest and most popular in knitting, yet few designers have adapted its rich texture or combined it with other techniques--until now! In her groundbreaking guide, Rosemary Drysdale uses the seed stitch as never before, incorporating it into colorwork, cabling, geometric patterns, and more. Twenty-five gorgeous projects have a modern flair, and include pillows, bags, cowls, and sweaters.

The 15 hat projects in this fun craft guide provide an enjoyable introduction to knitting in the round. With patterns to suit men and women as well as children and infants, these hats can be easily knit and stylishly worn. Photos and straightforward diagrams present a thorough tutorial on the techniques needed to complete the projects, making them suitable for beginning knitters, and the varieties of patterns will prevent advanced knitters from feeling bored.

In Knitted Beanies & Slouchy Hats, Diane Serviss, the design force behind the fantastically successful Pixiebell, offers up 31 original designs in an incredible range of styles, utilizing a wide variety of textured stitches and colorwork techniques. • Beanies and slouchy hats have been and continue to be the fashion-forward choice for casual, comfortable headgear for both women and men, including many celebrities like Katie Holmes, Taylor Swift, Rihanna, Justin Timberlake, Brad Pitt, and Harry Styles • Designs feature colorwork like Fair Isle and argyle and textured stitches like cables, broken rib, and lace patterns, well as making use of popular self-striping yarns •All original photography, shot on the streets of Brooklyn

This indispensable knitter's manual is the perfect handbook for knitters to come back to time and time again. Teaching key skills such as how to read patterns and charts, which needles and yarn to choose, how to hold your work, casting on and off, essential stitches and finishing - this is the only book you need to get started on your knitting journey. And, once you've got the basics under your belt, there is a wide range of knitting techniques to explore - including lace, cables, textured patterns, beaded work and embellishments. This manual provides a great reference for beginners and beyond. Having a wide repertoire of techniques at your fingertips will enhance every project you turn your hand to. Includes a handy SOS section giving expert tips on avoiding and spotting mistakes, using lifelines and how to rescue and fix common errors. Topics covered: Understanding abbreviations Fitting knit garments Tension swatches Cables and mock cables Assembly Bands and buttonholes Beadwork Blocking and pressing Bobbles, fringes, pompoms Stem stitch Cast-ons Circular knitting Jogless circular knitting Round vs rows Colourwork Increase and decrease Fixing dropped stitches Edges and joining edges Fair Isle Fastenings Picot Seams A comprehensive knitting manual for all you will ever need to know about knitting!

Stay on point with these 10 stylish knit hats! Nothing keeps you warm and cozy like a hand-knitted hat, and with the 10 designs in this book, you'll have one for every look. Beanies are toasty for hiking and slouchies look great for shopping or walking. Try new colors of yarn or stick with your favorites. You can create a whole selection of hats to upgrade every outfit. Each pattern includes full written instructions, charts when needed, and photo illustrations of any new stitches, making these patterns all quick and easy to knit.

Knitted hats are never out of fashion, and in this collection of twenty hats to knit, Monica Russel brings you traditional, and modern, designs that you will want to wear all year round! From the beanie to the beret, each design can be knitted as shown in the book, using the easy-to-follow instructions, or adapted in a colour scheme that best suits the wearer. Choose from bobble hats or Nordic ski hats complete with ear-flaps and tassels, plain weaves or Fair Isle knits: the twenty designs can be adapted into a multitude of colour and pattern combinations – there’s a knitted hat to be made for every discerning head!