Picot Hat + Hand Warmers: Free Knitting Pattern

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Picot Hat + Hand Warmers

Our new Yonder yarn brings its robust and earthy beauty to the sweet world of picot edges… A picot with some impact!

When you get Yonder in your hands, you will feel like you’re meeting an old friend, the one who tells it like it is and never lets you down. 50% highland wool and 50% alpaca and a classic worsted-weight yarn, it has a traditional, homey feel that just makes you want to nestle in.

Yonder is so compelling for a number of reasons: its plump 3-ply spin, its great-outdoors palette (complex, rich, beautiful!), and most of all, its feeling that is rustic but very soft, hard-working but subtle.

Yonder brings this down-to-earth character to our Picot Hat + Hand Warmers pattern, ensuring that charming doesn’t get too cute. How about that picot edge, anyway? If you’ve never knit one, it’s a lot of fun to discover how it’s done!

You’ll basically make a knit hem, which starts with a provisional cast one and ends with folding your piece in half and joining the cast-on edge to the working stitches. We have tutorials for all of that, by the way, so even if you’ve never done any of it, you can learn!

The picot secret comes halfway through the knit hem, when you work a round of eyelets (knit 2 together, yarn over, repeat). When you fold your hem along that round, the eyelets get folded in half and create little scallops, classically known as a picot edge!

Give your picot the tone you’re going for with Yonder‘s earthy heathered palette. It includes four undyed neutrals that come from naturally occurring shades of alpaca and wool, and the remaining 13 colors are dyed over these natural hues. Yonder plus picot… It’s inspired!

Yarn lovers, if you adore the yarn used in this project, you’ll love exploring all of our other yarn collections! Discover over 55 thoughtfully designed yarns in nearly every natural fiber and in every spectacular color you can imagine. Only available here at Purl Soho’s online yarn store, where every skein is created with care and your creativity in mind!

Pattern designed and written by Purl Soho designer, Hiromi Glover. See even more of Hiromi’s work on her Instagram!

Story written by Whitney Van Nes for Purl Soho.

Please Note: Designer Maria Bergman reached out to us to remark on the similarity of our picot hat designs, and indeed, they are very similar! For sure, a coincidence and a case of great minds thinking alike, we would like to shout out Maria’s Jiddes Mössa hat, which came first and is a close relative to our Picot Edge Hat. Please check out all of Maria’s designs on her Ravelry page… So many lovely things to knit!

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Materials

HAT

1 (1, 2, 2) skein(s) of Purl Soho’s Yonder, 50% alpaca and 50% highland Wool. Each skein worsted/aran weight yarn is 140 yards/ 100 grams; approximately 110 (140, 180, 220) total yards required.
US 7 (4.5 mm), 16-inch circular needles OR US 7, 32-inch circular needles for Magic Loop
US 8 (5 mm), 16-inch circular needles OR US 8, 32-inch circular needles for Magic Loop
If using short circular needles: A set of US 8 double pointed needles
Stitch markers, including one unique
A crochet hook and scrap yarn for Provisional Cast On

HAND WARMERS

1 (1, 1, 2) skein(s) of Purl Soho’s Yonder, 50% alpaca and 50% highland Wool. Each skein is 140 yards/ 100 grams; approximately 85 (120, 140, 190) total yards required.
A set of US 7 (4.5 mm) double pointed needles OR US 7, 32-inch circular needles for Magic Loop
A set of US 8 (5 mm) double pointed needles OR US 8, 32-inch circular needles for Magic Loop
A stitch marker
A crochet hook and scrap yarn for Provisional Cast On

NOTE: For the Adult Small/Medium Hand Warmers, we used the entire skein of Yonder, so if you want to be sure you have enough, consider ordering an extra skein. If you don’t end up needing it, you can return unwound yarn for a refund within 30 days of purchase, or within 6 months, for store credit. Our Return Policy has all the details!

To make both the Hat and Hand Warmers, you will need 2 (2, 3, 3) skeins of Yonder; approximately 195 (260, 320, 410) yards required!

We knit our samples in the following sizes and colors (some colors are no longer available)…

Kid set: Kelp Forest
Adult Small/Medium set: Yellow Dune
Adult Small/Medium set: Mountain Rose

GAUGE

18 stitches and 24 rounds = 4 inches in stockinette stitch, on larger needles

SIZES

HAT

Toddler (Kid, Adult Small/Medium, Adult Medium/Large)

Finished Circumference: 13¼ (16, 18½, 21¼) inches, comfortably stretching 1–4 inches
Finished Height, Uncuffed: 8½ (9½, 10½, 11½) inches
Finished Height, Cuffed: 6½ (7½, 8, 9) inches

For help choosing a hat size, check out our complete guide on How to Knit the Right Hat Size!

HAND WARMERS

Toddler (Kid, Adult Small/Medium, Adult Medium/Large)

Finished Circumference: 5¼ (6¼, 7, 8) inches, comfortably stretching 1–2 inches
Finished Length: 7 (9, 10, 11) inches

NOTES

PROVISIONAL CAST ON

For help with this cast on, including how to put live stitches back onto needles, please visit our Provisional Cast-On: A One-Step Method Tutorial.

LIFTED INCREASES (RLI + LLI)

RLI (Right Lifted Increase): Lift right leg of the stitch below the next stitch on the left needle onto the left needle and knit it. [1 stitch increased]

LLI (Left Lifted Increase): Lift the left leg of the stitch 2 rows below the stitch on right needle onto left needle and knit it through the back loop. [1 stitch increased]

To see both techniques in action, visit our Lifted Increase Tutorial!

SLIP STITCHES

Slip all slipped stitches purlwise.

HAT PATTERN

PICOT BRIM

With crochet hook and scrap yarn, use a Provisional Cast On (see Notes) to cast 60 (72, 84, 96) stitches onto smaller circular needles.

Place unique marker and join for working in the round, being careful not to twist the stitches.

With main yarn, knit 12 (12, 16, 16) rounds even.

Picot Round: *Yarn over (yo), knit two together (k2tog), repeat from * to end of round.

Change to larger circular needles.

Knit 11 (11, 15, 15) rounds even.

Carefully remove scrap yarn from Provisional Cast On, slipping stitches onto smaller circular needles as you go.

Fold piece in half so wrong sides are facing each other and needles are parallel, with larger working needles in front and smaller needles in back.

Continuing with larger needles…

Next Round: *Knit first stitch on front needles together with first stitch on back needles, repeat from * to end of round.

BODY

Knit every round for 5 (5¼, 5, 5½) inches.

CROWN

NOTE: Change to double pointed needles when necessary.

Set-Up Round: [K10 (12, 14, 16), place marker] 5 times, knit to end of round. [5 stitch markers placed; 6 markers total]

Decrease Round: [Knit to 2 stitches before next marker, k2tog, slip marker] 6 times. [6 stitches decreased]

KID, ADULT SMALL/MEDIUM, ADULT MEDIUM/LARGE ONLY

Continuing in stockinette stitch, repeat Decrease Round every other round – (2, 4, 6) more time(s). [54 stitches remain]

ALL SIZES

Repeat Decrease Round every round 7 more times. [12 stitches remain]

Next Round: *K2tog, remove marker, repeat from * to end of round. [6 stitches remain]

Cut yarn and thread tail onto a tapestry needle. Thread tail through remaining stitches, pull taut, and bring tail to inside of hat.

FINISHING

Weave in ends and gently block.

HAND WARMERS PATTERN

PICOT CUFF

With crochet hook and scrap yarn, use a Provisional Cast On (see Notes) to cast 24 (28, 32, 36) stitches.

Distribute stitches evenly on 4 double pointed needles or long circulars for Magic Loop.

Place unique marker and join for working in the round, being careful not to twist the stitches.

With main yarn, knit 9 (9, 12, 12) rounds even.

Picot Round: *Yarn over (yo), knit two together (k2tog), repeat from * to end of round.

Change to larger needles.

Knit 8 (8, 11, 11) rounds even.

Fold tube in half so wrong sides are facing each other and needles are parallel, with larger working needles in front and cast-on edge in back.

Carefully remove scrap yarn from Provisional Cast On, slipping stitches onto smaller double pointed needles as you go.

Continuing with larger double pointed needles…

Next Round: *Knit first stitch on front needles together with first stitch on back needles, repeat from * to end of round.

WRIST

Knit every round for 3½ (4½, 5, 6) inches.

THUMB HOLE

NOTE: For the Thumb Hole you will work flat, working back and forth in rows.

Row 1 (right side): RLI (see Notes), knit to end of row, LLI (see Notes). [26 (30, 34, 38) stitches]

Row 2 (wrong side): Purl to last stitch, slip 1 (see Notes) with yarn in front.

Row 3 (right side): Knit to last stitch, slip 1 (see Notes) with yarn in back.

Repeat Rows 2 and 3 one (2, 3, 3) more time(s).

Next Row (wrong side): Purl to end of row.

Next Row (right side): K2tog, knit to last 2 stitches, slip slip knit (ssk). Do not turn. [24 (28, 32, 36) stitches remain]

HAND

NOTE: For the Hand section you will work in the round again with the right side of the piece facing you.

Place unique marker for beginning of round.

Knit 7 (9, 9, 9) rounds even.

PICOT TOP

Change to smaller double pointed needles.

Picot Round: *Yarn over (yo), knit two together (k2tog), repeat from * to end of round.

Knit 4 (6, 6, 6) rounds even.

With right side facing you, fold body of Hand Warmer up through center of double pointed needles so piece is folded at Picot Round and wrong sides are facing each other.

NOTE: To see the following technique in action, visit our Knit Hem Tutorial. Note, though, that in this pattern we recommend picking up just one stitch at a time using your left needle instead of a spare needle.

Next Round: Using left needle tip, [pick up purl bump on wrong side in same column as next working stitch, knit next working stitch and picked-up stitch together] 2 times, pass first stitch on right needle over second stitch to bind off, *pick up next purl bump on wrong side in same column as next working stitch, knit next working stitch and picked-up stitch together, pass first stitch on right needle over second stitch to bind off, repeat from * to end of round.

Cut yarn and pull last stitch through.

FINISHING

Weave in ends and make another Hand Warmer just like the first.

Gently wet block your finished Hand Warmers!

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