PomPom Baby Hat

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.
• I added a blue and pink pompom to the back.