Knit Santa Hat Pattern | Easy Christmas Hat in 3 Sizes!

So to make the Santa hat we're going to be using Loops and Threads Impeccable Acrylic. It's a very nice soft worsted weight yarn. It is in the colors Claret and white, so easy. Red and white of course for our Santa hat. It has a very generous size yardage so no matter what size you're making you should not run out of yarn. The yardage is different depending on what size you're making so be sure to go to the description to get the pattern so that way you can see how much you need depending on what size you're making. And then for the needles we're We're going to be using a 5mm 16 inch circular. These are Addi Turbos, which I love. For just everyday use they're great needles. I'll link everything that's here so that way if you like how it looks you can go grab it. And then you'll need a yarn needle and some scissors. And then depending on how you want to make your pom-pom, I love these clover pom-pom makers so I'm going to be using this. This is the three inch which makes a nice big pom-pom. You could also use a fuzzy pom-pom, you know a store-bought one, so whatever you want. But go grab that pattern And we will get started. But first, hit that save button so that you don't lose this video in case you can't make it right now, and hit that like, subscribe, and notification bell so you never miss out when I release new free patterns, tutorials, or reviews. Let's get back to the pattern. Okay, so for the Santa hat I'm showing you the crochet version just so you can see what we're gonna do. The brim is actually really long because we're going to roll it up and that gives it kind of that poofy brim, you know, on a Santa hat style, so I just wanted to show you that real quick. This is a free pattern as well, I will link it if you enjoy crochet, you can go make one of these as well. But what we're going to start with is our cast on. You can do whatever cast on you want, I'm just going to do a long tail. And I'm making the large size, so depending on which size you're making your cast on will be different, but I'm going to be casting on 88 stitches. Hit the pattern for the correct number for you, but the first. third of that long brim, we're going to do ribbing. It's not going to be visible because you're folding it up, but everything else is stockinette. Everything is just knit stitch, and if we do the brim at the very beginning in knit, it will roll as you know. So we're going to do a two by two ribbing so that way it does not roll. So we're going to cast on our number of stitches. We will grab our stitch marker to mark our round, and then we're going to do 15 rounds, which is the same for all of the sizes, and a knit two, purl two ribbing. So I'll come back in just a second and we'll start that ribbing. Okay, I've got my 88 stitches and I'm always terrible at guesstimating my length for long tails, so I had a little bit I cut off. That's my deep dark secret. I do not get it perfect and I don't measure. I just wing it and hope it works, otherwise I'm ripping out Starting out and starting over. So... What we're going to do now is place our stitch marker. So I just quickly kind of laid this down and pushed all my stitches in the same direction so I know I'm not twisted. I kind of push them inward like this to make sure they're all not twisted. Okay, now we're going to do 15 rounds of 2x2 ribbing. So we're going to knit two, and I always kind of pull that close to my other end when I'm sliding that first stitch so that I don't have a big old seam. So Knit 2, Purl 2. So do 15 rounds of the Knit 2, Purl 2, and then we'll come back and start the next section, which everything is just knit from now on, but we've got to shape this thing. However, the next 30 rounds will be just Knitting in the white. Okay. Here is the last two stitches of round 15 So I've got my ribbed ending so I'm not rolling at all And then this will also give you a good position, you know for the folding You'll know kind of like where you should be folding So, now the next 30 rounds is going to be just knitting, just knit stitch all the way around for a stockinette, and then what that's also going to do is when we start folding it, you'll have a garter edge or garter look on the underside so that it gives you a different texture for the brim compared to the rest of the hat. So, go ahead and work on your 30 rounds of knit, and then we'll come back to start joining our red. Here I am at the very last couple stitches of round 45, so now the white brim portion is done. It looks just kind of almost like a beanie, but now we've got to keep on going. So we're going to switch over to red during our first stitch, and what I'm going to do is actually knit With both strands to lock in the red. So what I do is I move the tail pointing out to the right there. And then have my working yarn with my other working yarn. And then I'm going to knit two stitches just to lock in the red and white tails that I'm going to have when I cut this white off. And then I'm going to drop my white. So, because we're folding this, you won't see this kind of double stitch here, so it's not going to be visible when we have the brim rolled up. So it's just a good way to lock in your stitches so that you don't have them pulling out the entire time you're working your project. So, fastening off white, and we'll only use that again for the pom-pom at the end. And then now with the red I'm going to do another 30 rounds of just plain knitting, so same stitch count, we're not decreasing yet. Because remember, this is going to be rolled up, this is just the brim, so we still need the height of our Beanie to fit our head or our hat to fit our head. So we're going to do 30 rounds of red and then we will come back and start on the shaping. So go ahead and just knit around for 30 more. Okay here I am on the last couple of stitches for the first 30 rounds of the beanie. Now we're going to move on to the shaping. So depending on what size you're making it will be slightly different for the amount of stitches that you're putting between each decrease. For the large that I'm doing for our very first round of decreasing we're putting nine stitches in between. So we'll do nine knits and then we're going to knit two together to make the decrease. I'm here do two Knit two together, and that's our first decrease. So we're going to repeat that around. We're going to do nine knit stitches and one decrease. So that's going to, we're doing that eight times, so that will take us from 88 stitches to 80 stitches at the end of the round. For the smaller sizes, it will be eight and seven in between. So you're going to do that eight times to reduce Use your stitch count by 8 for every size. hat that we're doing. So again we're knitting nine and then knit two together to reduce. Then what we're going to do is every shaping row or decrease row we're going to reduce the number before the knit two together by one. So we're going on the next decrease is going to be eight stitches and then a knit two together. Then the next decrease will be seven with a knit two together. In between those decreases because if we just did Decrease after decrease every round we would just make a beanie. It would just close up and there would be no shaping. So we need it to be Santa hat shaped triangular. So in between each of our decrease rows we're going to do seven rounds. So we're going to do One round of decrease, and then seven rounds of knitting, and then our next decrease. So I'm not going to go through every single round of decrease with you because it's the same. We're just going to reduce one knit stitch in between each decrease every eighth round. So keep track as you're going. Seven rounds of knitting, decrease, seven rounds of knitting, decrease as you go. You can switch to DPNs once you get closer to the top. It'll be a little annoying. I usually will stick with my circulars if it's a straight decrease because it's only a couple of rounds of inconvenience of having to pull your your cables and and make you know Move it around to be able to work. For this, I will switch to DPNs near the top when the cable starts to be annoying just so that I'm not having to do another 40 rounds of moving cables around. So that's one thing to note. You might want to switch to DPNs. So we'll come back near the top. And look at what we've made and then we need to make a pom-pom and put it all together and then we will be ready for Christmas. So I will see you in a little bit after doing some more decreasing. Be sure to go grab that pattern if you need specifics on how many stitches to do in between each decrease. Okay I just finished the last stitch of the last round before my last decrease. So at large this is my very last decreasing round. I've got 16 stitches left and I'm decreasing to eight. So I have my stitch marker here, I need to get it moved. So now my very last round is just decreasing, so knit two together all Two stitches on each of my needles, so I'm just going to do my very last. This is what you'll do for all of the small and mediums already, the way around. but for me this is my last one. I'm on my last two stitches and then I will be able to fasten off. Okay, so now I've got eight stitches left on all my needles. I'm gonna reduce that a little. I'm gonna take a length long enough to weave in. Put that I'm going to add on my yarn needle. Then I'm going to go through all of my stitches in the order as if I was knitting them. Find the beginning here. This guy. Okay. Then I'm going to pull that tight to close. And I'm going to weave in all of my ends and then I'm going to make my pom-pom, which I have tutorials on how to make a pom-pom with this Clover Maker, which is my favorite, so check that out if you need to know how to use one of these if you've just gotten one, but they make great pom-poms. So I'm going to make my pom-pom, weave in my ends, then we'll come back and look at the Okay, the hat is done. I've got the pom-pom attached now. Finishing touch, I just need to roll the brim so that ribbed area gives you the perfect amount, you know, it tells you, like, here's where you should fold it, and then fold it one more time, and then you have your very own Santa hat. I love how easy this pattern is. I hope you enjoy making it. I would love to see... Your version, so be sure to tag me in the socials. They are all in the description, but thank you for watching I am Deja with Knit and Crochet Ever After and I will see you next time