What size would I make for a 1 yr old. My perspective is kinda skewed as both my boys were born with a big head and they are still big. I don’t know what size to make a hat for a petite little girl. Does 18 inches sound ok?
Lindsey–too funny! My daughter has the same issue, but she comes by it honestly (my head is bigger too and gets stuck in pull over shirts/tops all the time!!!) 
When my daughter was 16 months, her head was about 18.5", which was in the 75% percentile (so she wasn’t obscenely off the charts), if this helps.
Thanks for the site info. Cookworm, my head is large too. A lady at church told me that a dr. told her that head size is determined by the mother. So now I can’t even blame my husband for the painful labors caused by two big-headed babies 
. As an infant my youngest was off the chart :shock: . His head is still big but so is the rest of his body. I love my big-headed boys 
this doesn’t have head size information…
Nevermind. I found it.
it’s here. http://www.yarnstandards.com/headsize.html
This was a question of mine recently too - although you can find charts (the standards link given to you above is one of the better ones, you know - being Standards ) many conflict each other and confused me more. Then an employee at MLYS said her son was born with a 19" head (1. ouch; 2. then what do you do for a toddler???).
I made a gift hat for a 1 yr old with the intention to give it later this winter when she’d be like 16 months. So I made a 19" and I’m crossing my fingers - crossing them big-time.
Here’s the related thread with additional sizing resources/links: How-to Questions: Sizing infant/children’s hats
Without having a head measurement, I’d guess in between 18-19", maybe 18.5" to be “safe?” It depends on your pattern though. Some hats will stretch a bit (at most 1/2" ???) and whether you want it snug with stretch or loose to grow into…
This was my first infant/toddler hat though, so I’d take the word of actual knitting parents posted above over my thoughts.
Good luck!!
Okay, so my baby (6mo) has a head that is already 18inches. (mine is 22 so what can I say right?)
I am new to knitting… so I want to get this right… If the yarn says that there are say 4 st per inch, then I would make a hat for my babe by casting on 70st? (rounding to nearest 10)
I have been using Paton Shetland Chunky for a nice warm winter hat and have been using 5.5 needles. I have found that on my other hat, I got 4-5 st per inch… depending on my tension.
Am I on the right track?
Also, if I want to use a different size needle than is suggested on the yarn package I have to do a test swatch (what do you call those?) to see what the sizing works out to?
I’m such a newb!
Umm…Cara…my head is 22½! :oops:
Do I get some sort of big-headed award?
Yes, do a swatch. Make sure you do the swatch in the stitch pattern you will be using for the hat.
I just made hats for my nieces. One will be 4 in December and the other is 18 months. I used my DD (who turned 2 yesterday) for sizing on the hat for the 18 month old. I used the Knitty pattern Sugar on Snow for the 4 year old. I made the child/small adult pattern. It is a very very stretchy hat so I think it would fit a variety of sizes.
Candice