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Vintage Beanie Pom-Pom Newborn Hat

Designed By: Beverly from themakeyourownzone.com

This Pom Pom Newborn Hat is an easy baby hat knitting pattern.

Knitted in stockinette stitch, this knitted baby hat is simple enough for beginners to get the hang of quickly and easy enough for advanced knitters to finish in an evening.

Because this is such a quick knitting pattern, it’s also a perfect charity knitting project.

Originally designed to be donated to hospitals, this free knitting pattern is offered in newborn size, so it would make the perfect gift for a brand new baby. Or knit these hats for charity and feel good about your knitting project.

Beginner knit pattern

Knitting Needle Size 6 or 4 mm Single point or circular

Yarn Weight(4) Medium Weight/Worsted Weight and Aran (16-20 stitches to 4 inches)

The designer has based the patterns on two old original vintage beanie patterns and then adapted the fibre for modern day use and yarns and coming up with her own design for these beautiful little newborn hats. On the subject of yarns these hats will knit up with 4 ply or eight ply fibre. They are quick and easy to make, even for beginning knitters.

  Although many hats are knit in the round on circular needles, for these very tiny hats I decided to create a simple straight needle pattern with a seam, so this pattern is able to be knitted flat on single points or circular needles.

Web Pattern

Size 6.0mm Needles – American (equals size 8 UK needles)
Yarn: Medium Weight 4 Ply This pattern can also be done in 8 ply but do a tension gauge square to match your gauge first.

Gauge:  4.5 stitches per inch (or 2 stitches per centimetre)

Cast On 48 stitches

Work in Knit 1, Purl 1 ribbing for 1″  (about 6 rows)

Then knit in Stockinette Stitch (knit 1 row, purl 1 row) for 3″ inches. End with a purl row.  Piece will now measure 4″ from the beginning.

Begin Decrease for top of hat:
Next Row:  Knit 2 together across row (24 stitches)
Next Row:  Purl across
Next Row:  Knit 2 together across row (12 stitches)
Next Row:  Purl across
Next Row:  Knit 2 together across row (6 stitches)

Cut yarn, leaving a long tail for sewing up seam.  Thread the tail of yarn through a large eye needle and then pull through the stitches to remove them from the needle.   Pull stitches tight to gather. Sew seam downside of hat with remaining yarn.  Make pom pom and fasten to top of hat.

Ideas For Striped Baby Hats

Here are a few ways you can add stripes to the knit newborn baby hat pattern.  I find it usually takes me 18 rows to make the 3” body portion of the hat after the ribbing.  Therefore, all these stripe patterns are for 18 rows, but they are simple patterns that you could easily adjust as needed.  I always do the ribbing in the main colour, and then proceed on to do the stripes,

 Note Abbreviations used here are:   MC = Main Colour    CC = Contrasting Colour

Wide Stripe Pattern:

Do Ribbing in MC
Then in stockinette stitch:
4 rows: MC
4 rows: CC
4 rows: MC
4 rows: CC  (break off contrasting colour)
2 rows: MC

Continuing in main colour, begin decrease rows and complete the hat.

Skinny Stripe Pattern:

Do Ribbing in MC
Then in stockinette stitch:
2 rows: MC
2 rows: CC
2 rows: MC
2 rows: CC
2 rows: MC
2 rows: CC
2 rows: MC
2 rows: CC (break off contrasting colour)
2 rows: MC
Continuing in main colour, begin decrease rows and complete the hat.

2 Stripe Pattern

Do Ribbing in MC
Then in stockinette stitch:
4 rows: MC
2 rows: CC
4 rows: MC
2 rows: CC  (break off contrasting colour)
6 rows MC
Continuing in main colour, begin decrease rows and complete the hat.

Making the Pom Poms

To finish off the hat with a pom pom, I always use my pom pom maker that I bought at the craft store several years ago.  

To use a pom pom maker, you wrap the yarn around two rings of plastic.  You then snip the yarn apart around the edges, pull the two rings slightly apart, and tie things together with another small length of yarn.  Once it is tied in the middle, you can pull the plastic rings off and fluff up your pom pom.

Snip away any uneven or long pieces to even out the pom pom.

Then use the two long pieces from tying the pom pom together to attach it to the hat.  I often use two colours of yarn to make the pom poms for my beanies and hats.

I hope you enjoy this pattern too.  They’re rather addicting to make and before you know it you may have a whole pile of these newborn knit baby hats laying around!

Carey, Caszs Country Crafts

You can print a copy of this pattern by clicking on the blue link below: Newborn Free Pattern Vintage Beanie Hats PDF Printable