Scrappy Bucket Hat by Jess Coppom

Craft: Knitting

This pattern is available on Ravelry.

With its colorful and cheerful design, this knit bucket hat will surely become your new favorite summer hat.

Mercerized cotton yarn and the knit garter stitch combine in a moldable, comfy, and surprisingly structured hat. Use up all your colorful yarn scraps or select a specific color scheme to suit your style.

Advanced-beginner knitting skills you’ll practice include knitting in the round using circular and double-pointed needles, decreasing, and meeting a pattern gauge.

Pattern includes four sizes to fit head circumferences from 16-24” (toddlers to adult men and women). Each hat requires approx 200-440 yards of a light worsted weight cotton such Lion Brand 24/7 Cotton.

Suggested yarn

Lion Brand 24/7 Cotton

Yarn weight

yarn held together

Worsted + Worsted = Bulky (7 wpi)

Gauge

14 stitches and 32 rows = 4 inches in garter stitch

Needle size

US 5 - 3.75 mm

Yardage

180 - 400 yards (165 - 366 m)

Sizing/Measurements 

S (toddler) / Fits head circumference 16-18”

M (child) / Fits head circumference 18-20”

L (adult) / Fits head circumference 20-22”

XL (larger adult) / Fits head circumference 22-24”