Scrappy Bucket Hat by Jess Coppom

Craft: Knitting

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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”