Alison's Knit-a-Square One Evening Hat - needed in sizes young teen to adult for kids 3+

Alison’s One Evening Hat

With the great need for hats for our South African orphans, this is an ideal pattern. It works up in an evening, is soft and stretchy so it will ‘grow’ with the child, and is so simple that even a beginning knitter will be able to make it.

Alison has this to say :"Here is a pattern I have been working on for a while which I have adapted to fit a wide age range. It is really warm and stretchy. I have been knitting these up in a single evening. It takes about 4 hours if you don't take too many tea breaks!

For size 3-8

Using Chunky yarn and 6mm needles, cast on 60 stitches

K2, P2 until hat measures 9 inches from the start

K2tog, P2tog across next row

Cut a tail about 15 inches long and thread through remaining stitches and off needles

Pull tightly to close the hat then sew up from the top.

Note - for size 8-14 - cast on 80 stitches and adust length if desired

The pattern is really easy to adapt and it would work just as well in 5.5 - 6.5 mm needles.