Next up for Hat Week – the Knitted Baby Bonnet, complete with instructions this time! The new design is modified so that the back section fits better – when I made this for my niece I had to gather the bottom back edge so it wouldn’t gape on her neck.
Copyright 2012. Feel free to print these instructions for yourself, but please do not redistribute, copy or sell this pattern. Send others here for the instructions. You may sell items made from this pattern.
This is a good list of knitting abbreviations to start with if you’re unfamiliar with the abbreviations below.
Needles: Size 6
Yarn: Paton Silk Bamboo Yarn (affiliate link)
Gauge: 22 sts/26 rows = 4 inches
Picot Edging
Cast on 5 sts.
Row 1: Knit
Row 2: Sl 1, k1, YO twice, K2tog, k1
Row 3: Sl 1, k2, p1, k2
Row 4: Sl 1, k3, YO twice, k2
Row 5: Sl 1, k2, p1, k4
Row 6: Sl 1, K1, YO twice, k2tog, k4
Row 7: Sl 1, k5, p1, k2
Row 8: Sl 1, K8
Row 9: Bind off 4 sts, K4
Repeat rows 2-9 10 more times
Bonnet body
Pick up 63 stitches along the flat side of the picot edging.
Lace pattern
Row 8Â [WS]: k3, p63, k3
Row 9Â [RS]: k4, * k2tog, yo, k3, yo, k3tog, yo, sl2-k1-p2sso, yo, sl1-k2tog-psso, yo, k3, yo, ssk, YO, k2tog, Rep twice from *, k3
Wil van Eijbergen
Hello Melissa,
I want to knit this baby bonnet but i don’t understand the pattern because you used a lot of “codes, like:ssk, ks yo
Is it possible to explaine these codes fos me ?
thanx very much , greetings, Wil
Jennie hobbins
Hi Melissa. I’ve started to knit this lovely bonnet but am having trouble withe abbreviations could you explain them for me please. Thanks
lentelie
me too?
Melissa Mora
SSK, K, etc are common knit abbreviations and can be found with a google search for “knit abbreviations”
Marcia
Could you please clarify your instructions about picking up 63 stitches. What do you do with the 5 left on the needle from the picot edge? Can I start picking up from the opposite end to be able to knit the next row? That would be the first pattern row for the hat body.
I would really appreciate your help.
Melissa Mora
You bind off all the picot stitches before turning and picking up the bonnet stitches.
Laura Hassler
Hi Melissa!
I was wondering what size this is?
Melissa Mora
0-3 months.
Suzzanne
I knitted your boogie pattern for 3-6 months. How would I increase this pattern for that size?
Melissa Mora
You could try larger needles to increase your stitch gauge.
Noni
Hi there! I just finished the picot edge.After I picked up stitches on the flat side, I’ve only come up with 47 stitches. Now I’m confused! Can you offer some suggestions as to where I may have messed up? Sould I have also picked up the vertical edges?
Melissa Mora
You don’t pick up stitch per stitch – you need to measure your trim, then plan how many stitches per inch you’re going to pick up to get the amount you need. Sometimes that will mean picking up two stitches in one. Sometimes that will mean skipping a stitch. It’s helpful to use stitch marker rings on your trim so you know how many stitches you need to pick up between each marker.