A really nice women I work with is about to go on maternity leave, so I wanted to make her a baby hat. I didn't know the gender, so I went with mint green with pink and blue stripping. One of the colors had to be right!
I bought super soft cotton from Compatto Yarn Salon. Nancy, one of the owners helped me with a super simple pattern that I could do entirely on my round needles.
Cast on 80 stitches on 7 gauge needles 16 inch round needles
The entire thing is just knit stitches, so no knitting and pearling.
Knit 8 rows.
Bring in a row of blue
Knit 3 rows of pink
Knit a row of blue
Knit 8 rows of green
Bring in a row of pink
Knit 3 rows of blue
Knit a row of pink
Knit 8 rows of green
Now start reducing. For every other row, K Tog every 8th stitch.
Knit in a row of blue, K Tog every 8th stitch.
Knit 3 rows of pink, reducing on the 2nd row
Knit in a row of blue
Now start reducing every row. So K Tog each 8th stitch on each row.
Once you get down to about 20 stitches, or it is just to hard to work on the needles, grab the blue and the pink and cast off the needles.
Now take the loose green yarn to tie to the top shut.
