Flannel Shirt Hat - Knitting Pattern

This beginner friendly (written and charted) hat pattern is the perfect partner to our Flannel Shirt Socks and keeps our heads as cozy as our toes. It recreates the iconic feel of a Luke Danes well-worn flannel with an easily memorized and texture-filled stitch design. Perfect for any head and any yarn – tonal, speckle, or variegated – and would even be an amazing scrappy hat.

The stretchy nature of the pattern makes for a perfect gift knit as the sizing is super forgiving! This hat was created to keep all heads warmed and the pattern spans from a 7 inch circumference to a 19 inch to cover the full span of noggins. But honestly, let’s talk about this for a minute. This is your project. You can literally knit this hat at whatever gauge you want! The pattern is a multiple of 8, so if you want to make a worsted weight hat, fingering weight hat, a hat for your stuffed animal, just do it! Figure out the desired circumference of head (minus a few inches for negative ease and stretch to really stay on) and then figure out how many stitches your swatch gets per inch. Multiply that many stitches by the number of inches you need and cast on that amount!

The stretchy nature of this pattern is very forgiving for size, which makes the perfect gift knit. I would recommend sizing down to a size that gives you between 3 and 5 inches of negative ease.

You will need yarn, a needle of choice, stitch marker (if not knitting magic loop), tapestry needle to close your hat, and any other hat notions you typically use.