I want to make a hat for a girl I like. I’m a beginning knitter so nothing fancy… I’ll keep the hat simple but design a pattern with colors. I was able to find out that her favorite colors are white, blue, and pink. Anybody have a pattern or a sketch of one?
Any good patterns for a valentine gift hat? (now FO)
awww how cute are you? Did you try www.knittingpatterncentral.com ?
check out their hats section. there are all sorts of goodies over there. hats are waaaaaaaaay easier than you would think (especially if knit in the round on circulars!) and you can play with color in any ol’ way you want to! oooooh or you could go to the patterns on this site and look at the baby hats. there is one there with hearts on it…all you would have to do is adjust the size for a full grown adult! 
I’m not really looking for a “structure pattern” for a hat… really I’m looking for a color scheme or fair isle design. Structure-wise the hat will be very simple and easy.
[color=darkblue]Did you see this in a post by garden mommy?
http://www.ptyarn.com/valentinehearts.html
Alternative to two color knitting would be to purl the hearts on a knit background, or vise/versa.[/color]
there’s a hat with hearts in Stitch and Bitch Nation, very easy and cute
I think hearts is a little bit more blunt of a statement than I want to make. We’re not a couple… not yet… i just want to make a nice looking hat for her.
Something like this maybe: http://www.knitting-and.com/knitting/patterns/hats/ladys-fairisle-hat.htm
ooh ooh! waves hand I saw this neat thing on Craftster, where someone knit morse code into the hat…that would be subtle, as I didnt even know it was morse code until I read the post…it really makes for a neat design, and you could “send a message” too without her even knowing…how sneaky…
http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=45253.0
Or you could do a celtic design? http://www.knitting-and.com/knitting/patterns/charts/triskele.htm
http://www.knitting-and.com/knitting/patterns/charts/key.htm
I especially like that last link for celtic key…but then you have been to her website, so maybe you already saw those…
http://wiseneedle.com/patternpage.asp?pattern=knitpatknot
I really like the above…then I dont know if your lucky receiving lady likes celtic stuff, but I’d just about die if a guy knit me something like that 
Oooo… Joe thats pretty! I think that would be perfect for your lady friend!
Oooo… Joe thats pretty! I think that would be perfect for your lady friend! [/quote]
Yes, of course, I’ll have to buy three different shades of pink yarn. And white. I’ve given notice at work, and I’ll be moving to a new job in Beijing in a month… so whatever “stash” I acquire here I probably won’t be able to take with me. :S
Uh-oh, are you taking your girl with you???
i LOVE that morse code hat!!! I’m going to do that for my brother, I think It’ll say "hi, i’m a big dork! "
No, she lives in Beijing. We’ve known each other for three years but I haven’t seen her face-to-face in about a year and a half. I will be arriving in Beijing just before Valentine’s day so I hope to make a date then, or at least on the weekend.
I can’t wait to see the hat when you make it! 
If you want to be even more nerdly, make an ASCII hat. That’s the computer code that represents each letter + number with a sequence of eight ones and zeroes (you could use black and white stitches). Number one means “on” and zero is “off” electronically, so you can represent that however you like. No need to add spaces between words. Spacebar is 00100000.
Space 00100000 Exclamation Point ! 00100001 Double Quote " 00100010 Pound/Number Sign # 00100011 Dollar Sign $ 00100100 Percent Sign % 00100101 Ampersand & 00100110 Single Quote ‘ 00100111 Left Parenthesis ( 00101000 Right Parenthesis ) 00101001 Asterisk * 00101010 Plus Sign + 00101011 Comma , 00101100 Hyphen / Minus Sign - 00101101 Period . 00101110 Forward Slash / 00101111 Zero Digit 0 00110000 One Digit 1 00110001 Two Digit 2 00110010 Three Digit 3 00110011 Four Digit 4 00110100 Five Digit 5 00110101 Six Digit 6 00110110 Seven Digit 7 00110111 Eight Digit 8 00111000 Nine Digit 9 00111001 Colon : 00111010 Semicolon ; 00111011 Less-Than Sign < 00111100 Equals Sign = 00111101 Greater-Than Sign > 00111110 Question Mark ? 00111111 At Sign @ 01000000 Capital A A 01000001 Capital B B 01000010 Capital C C 01000011 Capital D D 01000100 Capital E E 01000101 Capital F F 01000110 Capital G G 01000111 Capital H H 01001000 Capital I I 01001001 Capital J J 01001010 Capital K K 01001011 Capital L L 01001100 Capital M M 01001101 Capital N N 01001110 Capital O O 01001111 Capital P P 01010000 Capital Q Q 01010001 Capital R R 01010010 Capital S S 01010011 Capital T T 01010100 Capital U U 01010101 Capital V V 01010110 Capital W W 01010111 Capital X X 01011000 Capital Y Y 01011001 Capital Z Z 01011010 Left Bracket [ 01011011 Backward Slash \ 01011100 Right Bracket ] 01011101 Caret ^ 01011110 Underscore _ 01011111 Back Quote ` 01100000 Lower-case A a 01100001 Lower-case B b 01100010 Lower-case C c 01100011 Lower-case D d 01100100 Lower-case E e 01100101 Lower-case F f 01100110 Lower-case G g 01100111 Lower-case H h 01101000 Lower-case I I 01101001 Lower-case J j 01101010 Lower-case K k 01101011 Lower-case L l 01101100 Lower-case M m 01101101 Lower-case N n 01101110 Lower-case O o 01101111 Lower-case P p 01110000 Lower-case Q q 01110001 Lower-case R r 01110010 Lower-case S s 01110011 Lower-case T t 01110100 Lower-case U u 01110101 Lower-case V v 01110110 Lower-case W w 01110111 Lower-case X x 01111000 Lower-case Y y 01111001 Lower-case Z z 01111010 Left Brace { 01111011 Vertical Bar | 01111100 Right Brace } 01111101 Tilde ~ 01111110
lol binary…See You can do anything!
If you did the binary in green digits on a black hat, it would look like it was from the Matrix 
I was thinking you could do each letter/digit vertically. Therefore your pattern would be eight stitches tall. You could put as many letters into the design as you have stitches in the circumference of your hat. It would look something like “static” or one of those new style bar codes.
i picked out a white, pink, and purple yarn for the project, but discovered they were far too thin to make my hat with. So I’ve tried doubling up the strands. Here is a swatch I knit. The first six or eight rows are pink + white, followed by purple + white, then pink + purple, then pink doubled up, followed by white + a teal yarn that’s not quite the right weight and fiber to match. I’m not going to use the pattern, instead I think I’m going to make horizontal stripes of pink-white and purple-white, I like the randomness and the colors match. Above the ribbing I’ll invent some kind of pattern as I go – possibly a few narrow vertical stripes of solid colors doubled up – then go back to the pattern.
Wish me luck.
Quick question… how big is a typical woman’s head, in inches? Mine is nearly 23 inches.
A typical woman’s head, according to Yarn Standards, is 20 inches.
Fab reference: http://www.yarnstandards.com/headsize.html