Sweet Baby Cap
I’ve been asked to translate the pattern for the baby cap. Here it is. English understanding people - I hope you will enjoy it and I hope to see a lot of nice caps around! Thanks to Theresa. She made the traslation.
Gauge: 28 stitches = 10 cm
Yarn: 50 grams of light and dark pink yarn, baby weight.
Sizes: 6 mo (1) 2 yr
CO 121 (125) 131 stitches with 2.5 mm circular needle, join then knit 7 rounds in garter stitch (purl one round, then knit one round) then change to 3 mm needles and knit in stockinette stitch, changing colors every 2 rows.
On the next round, increase and decrease as follows:
k1, M1, k18 (18) 19, slip 1 - knit 2 tog tbl - psso, k 18 (19) 20, M1, k1, M1
k 18 (19) 20, slip 1 - knit 2 tog tbl - psso, k 18 (19) 20, M1, k1, M1, k 18
(19) 20, slip 1 - knit 2 tog tbl - psso, k 18 (18) 19, M1, k1
Repeat these increases and decreases every other round for 8 (9) 10 more rounds. Then do only the decreases every other round until there are 7 (11) 11 stitches left. Then k2tog until only one stitch is left, break yarn and thread through remaining stitches.
Steam block the cap from the inside with a damp cloth over. Attach crocheted or I-cord ribbon in each side.
The pattern is available in norwegian too
16 mai 2007 at 2:42 pm
[...] The pattern is available in english too [...]
16 mai 2007 at 4:45 pm
It’s so cute! Thank you so much for the pattern, I can’t wait to start one.
16 mai 2007 at 5:47 pm
It’s beautiful. Thank you.
16 mai 2007 at 5:59 pm
Thank you so much! I’m very excited to make lots of these. :)
16 mai 2007 at 6:30 pm
Thank you for translating and sharing this with us. Maybe I’ll cast on for one tomorrow in honor of Syttende Mai?
16 mai 2007 at 7:48 pm
Thank you!
17 mai 2007 at 1:00 am
[...] Sweet Baby Cap I’ve been asked to translate the pattern for the baby cap. Here it is. English understanding people - I hope you […] [...]
17 mai 2007 at 6:47 am
Thank you SOSOSOSO much!!
17 mai 2007 at 3:15 pm
I just came over from Ravelry and I am so happy you translated this pattern. It is the cutest hat and I can’t wait to make it.
17 mai 2007 at 4:36 pm
Thanks so much! I’ve been waiting and hoping for the pattern. It’s so very cute!
18 mai 2007 at 2:30 am
Thank you! The hat reminds me of the Jaywalker sock. I’m envisioning a matching set.
18 mai 2007 at 2:03 pm
[...] by casting on the Norwegian baby hat pattern Adrienne posted, the pattern has been translated into english and I think the variegated blue yarn My Jen (no I haven’t licked her and claimed her as my [...]
20 mai 2007 at 8:37 pm
Thank you for translating and sharing this wonderful pattern. I can’t wait to knit it!
20 mai 2007 at 8:48 pm
Great pattern and great hat!
22 mai 2007 at 5:17 am
Thanks for sharing, very nice of you.
22 mai 2007 at 5:33 am
Thank you for sharing the pattern!!! The hats are just adorable, I can’t wait to give one a try.
22 mai 2007 at 3:21 pm
Can you tell me (I am missing something) - after I switch to the 3mm needles and stockinette, how many rounds do I knit before starting the inc/dec rows?
22 mai 2007 at 3:25 pm
Thank you for sharing the translation, it’s a wonderful hat.
22 mai 2007 at 7:44 pm
Hello to everybody!
Thanks for nice comments about the hat. I hope to see many nice versions around. I’ll be glad to see a picture or get an URL to visit when you have done the cap!
To Carrie:
You start the inc/dec rows just after you have switched to the 3mm needles.
22 mai 2007 at 9:21 pm
Thanks so much - this is an adorable pattern and I can’t wait to make it!
24 mai 2007 at 3:14 pm
Thank you for a very sweet pattern. I just posted my finished cap on my site. And you might be interested to see this: http://philacraft.blogspot.com/2006/06/snufkin.html. You have fellow Moomin fans in the US!
24 mai 2007 at 3:18 pm
Sorry, here’s that link to Snuflin again without the period after html.
http://philacraft.blogspot.com/2006/06/snufkin.html
All good wishes, Cristina
28 mai 2007 at 2:57 am
Thanks for the great translation! I’ve got one on the needles!
30 mai 2007 at 2:30 pm
Well, now I must knit one.
31 mai 2007 at 12:56 am
This has got to be the cutiest little baby hat I’ve seen in a log time. thank you so much for the translation………..Do you have any other patterns like this that you could translate? I would be interested in any that you have. Thank you so much………….cindy012055@sbcglobal.net
1 juni 2007 at 2:46 am
Thanks for this pattern! i’m just going to put it aside for fall knitting days.
16 juni 2007 at 11:45 am
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17 juni 2007 at 3:41 pm
[...] on the microwave in the kitchen) or I could have made some serious progress on my second Norwegian baby cap but I had at some point removed the 3mm DPNs I need to switch to after knitting the 6 rows of [...]
19 juni 2007 at 1:03 am
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21 juni 2007 at 6:21 am
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25 juni 2007 at 8:56 am
Thanks for the lovely pattern, it provided a very useful last-minute gift for my friend’s one-year-old!
http://theknitnursechronicles.blogspot.com/2007/06/young-jose.html
26 juni 2007 at 1:35 am
[...] morning on my way to work I cast off my second Norwegian Baby Hat, I dare say that this has by far become my chosen hat pattern for the small set. I think it may [...]
27 juni 2007 at 5:21 pm
Thanks for the pattern! Cheers!
27 juni 2007 at 5:58 pm
[...] Another Sweet Baby Cap from the leftovers (about 30g of yarn on 2.75mm needles). This one will actually be gifted. [...]
3 juli 2007 at 12:57 am
Thank you so much!
I can’t wait to start on them…
(gonna have to make a dozen!)
4 juli 2007 at 3:55 pm
Thanks for translating! That is so beautiful, I’m gonna start one NOW! :)
16 juli 2007 at 11:23 pm
How generous of you to share this lovely pattern. So many little ones will benefit from your thoughtfulness!
19 juli 2007 at 4:27 pm
[...] pattern is from Grosblog and was graciously translated to English by Theresa. The blue and red hat is for [...]
27 juli 2007 at 3:51 am
What a seriously sweet baby cap!
27 juli 2007 at 4:13 am
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27 juli 2007 at 7:56 pm
that is adorable
thanks
2 august 2007 at 4:32 pm
[...] This free pattern is absolutely awesome. I am in love. It’s almost as good as the Norwegian Baby Hat pattern. Almost. Actually, I may love them both equally. Maybe by Friday you will even get to see [...]
4 august 2007 at 9:56 pm
What an adorable baby hat! Thank you so very much, for the pattern.
But I’m so confused, maybe because I’m fairly new to knitting.
I’ve never had any problems yet, understanding a pattern but when I read this one I just don’t get it, sorry.
When I change to the 3 mm needle size, I start doing the inc./dec. rows right away? Yet it says that when you change to the 3 mm needles, you knit in stockinette stitch?
It states, “Repeat these increases and decreases every other round” What do I do on every other round after the inc./dec. round? Straight knitting?
Then later it says: “Then do only the decreases every other round, etc….”
To me I can only see what looks like one continuous round of mixed increasing, and decreasing. I don’t see a round of only decreasing.
And if I’m decreasing on every other round, do I do straight knitting on the other round? Thus, every other round?
I would be so very grateful, if somebody could please clarify all of this for me. My email address is below.
I would love to be able to make this cute little hat for my grandson, but I can’t understand the instructions.
Please if you could possibly email me with some help on how to knit this hat with specifics in regards to my questions above, I would appreciate it soooooo much.
My email address is: queen_gueneviere@yahoo.ca Please put at the top, “Sweet Baby Cap” so that I’ll know it’s not spam. Thank you so very much to anybody who can help me out. I’ll be so very grateful to have some help so that I can understand the directions, and be able to make this hat for my grandson. :) Thank you, thank you, thank you, to whomever is kind enough to email me, with help on this.
15 august 2007 at 12:50 pm
I made your cap this week. It’s brilliant. I posted a little “clarification” on my blog based on what I figured out from your photos - I hope that’s ok.
15 august 2007 at 3:48 pm
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25 august 2007 at 4:10 am
Great hat but could you tell me what the M1 stands for is it make one.
Thanks
27 august 2007 at 6:44 am
YES! M1 = make one ;)
29 august 2007 at 2:31 pm
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3 september 2007 at 5:52 am
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5 september 2007 at 1:43 am
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9 september 2007 at 5:08 am
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14 september 2007 at 1:10 am
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30 september 2007 at 5:42 pm
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15 oktober 2007 at 2:04 am
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20 oktober 2007 at 11:51 pm
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27 oktober 2007 at 7:10 pm
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28 oktober 2007 at 1:01 am
Thank you, thank you for the translation :)
I´ve been looking for a “knit in the round” version of this hat, I´m Icelandic and actually wore this kind of hats myself when I was a baby (still have one of mine)
I´m a novice knitter but still managed to knit this cap in 2 days for my 6 week old son.
I must take a picture tomorrow and post here to show off :)
29 oktober 2007 at 9:12 pm
Here are 2 pictures of my beautiful boy with his fantastic baby cap :)
http://s3.frontur.com/img/330/20071029134936_0.jpg
http://s3.frontur.com/img/330/20071029135322_2.jpg
Not the best pictures but they´ll do for now. I actually finished another one, made it bigger and finished of with an I-cord at the top.
30 oktober 2007 at 12:51 pm
hi
wonderful post
1 november 2007 at 11:59 am
I am so thrilled to get this pattern. It is adorable and I will be out on the streets today in search of the perfect yarn. I think it will be Artyarn.
19 november 2007 at 4:51 am
I love this hat! Thank you for having the pattern translated. My husband and I visited Iceland 3 years ago and I fell in love with everything there - especially all the knitted garments!
Has anyone knitted this hat in the largest size and been 6 stitches short of finishing the pattern at the end of the first increase/decrease row? Help! What am I doing wrong?
19 november 2007 at 4:02 pm
I love this pattern and can’t stop knitting it. Here are some finished hats to show off.
http://knitlet.typepad.com/knitlet/2007/11/cold-please-ple.html
Now it just needs to cool off in Houston!
23 november 2007 at 4:38 pm
[...] enough yarn left over to make a pair of socks if I want. I think that it might instead end up as a hat and mitten set for Baby J. Which I will knit after [...]
3 desember 2007 at 11:31 pm
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15 desember 2007 at 1:35 pm
very interesting, but I don’t agree with you
Idetrorce
22 desember 2007 at 6:04 pm
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27 desember 2007 at 6:29 pm
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31 desember 2007 at 3:35 pm
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14 januar 2008 at 1:42 pm
Hallo!
Gibt es die Sweet Baby CapStrickanleitung auch auf deutsch?
Gruss Silvi
16 januar 2008 at 11:44 pm
Ohhhh!!! **Excitement** A friend had an old baby hat like this, and I’d love to knit one- thankyou so much for sharing the pattern in English!!
21 januar 2008 at 4:36 am
[...] In addition, I managed (just about) to complete the second sleeve on my son’s Cobblestone Pullover, finished another couple of inches on my DIY Peasant’s Cap (it would have been nice to have had it to wear against the bitter cold wind today), began yet another brioche beret, this one requested by a fellow singer (based on Nancy Marchant’s Rooftop Beret pattern). My second Clapotis has acquired grown by three inches (nearly ready for it’s first dropped stitch); this project is especially nice to take out when time permits, since the Fleece Artist kidsilk is so splendid to handle. I still need to add the buttons to the Saartje’s booties finished for a rabbi’s new daughter, but the matching Sweet Baby Cap [...]
10 februar 2008 at 1:08 pm
[...] been looking for a baby hat pattern like this forever! It’s almost like a little bonnet - and I can see it knit up with a little ruffle [...]
10 februar 2008 at 10:30 pm
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18 februar 2008 at 8:21 pm
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19 februar 2008 at 3:42 pm
Hello!
Most probably a cap like this will soon be seen in Finland!
21 februar 2008 at 9:08 pm
[...] seen Leslie’s examples of the Swedish Sweet Baby Cap, two little caps were started on the spot! Worked in the round on circular needles, this pattern [...]
25 februar 2008 at 2:28 am
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25 februar 2008 at 9:36 am
Thanks for this cute pattern! Can you tell me if the M1 instructions are for increasing right or left?
28 februar 2008 at 10:52 pm
[...] Knosh“), and I quickly made a pair of Quick Baby Socks to demonstrate, and also another Sweet Baby Cap (the skein had more than enough for two of these in the smallest, 6 mos. size). The cap was a [...]
7 mars 2008 at 6:50 pm
Thanks for sharing that pattern. It’s a really cute hat!
~Johanna~
12 mars 2008 at 1:38 am
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12 mars 2008 at 5:46 pm
[...] don’t have much knitting or sewing progress to show off, hence the cat photos. I started a Sweet Baby Cap for a coworker of Jason’s, but the progress is pretty slow, especially since this is my [...]
20 mars 2008 at 8:23 pm
printed this pattern! It’s lovely, and i’ll be knitting one each for my upcoming nephew, two nieces and my daughter. Thanks for sharing such a great pattern!
23 mars 2008 at 7:56 pm
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5 april 2008 at 5:13 pm
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7 april 2008 at 6:49 pm
Thanks for the translation, it’s a really cute design.
9 mai 2008 at 6:15 am
Thank you for this beautiful pattern! My creation is here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cadilily/2477832858/
I’m planning on knitting up more for friends who are expecting lil’ ones. :-)
Bright blessings,
Cadi
13 mai 2008 at 9:48 am
Hei på deg i kroken!
Tusen takk for at du delte dette luemønstret med oss. Den er utrolig morsom å strikke. Jeg er ferdig med min første nå. Bildet av den i bloggen min. Og det blir garantert ikke den siste.
Ønsker deg en flott dag!