The Business Card Hat

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Description

Business Card Pattern is a simple square top garter stitch beanie. Worked seamlessly from the bottom up, it’s knitted entirely in garter stitch, then seamed across the top.

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Yarn
83 [120, 146, 183, 220] yds/75 [100, 133, 167, 200] m
Worsted or light Aran weight yarn

Needles & Notions
Set 4mm DPNs or size needed to obtain gauge
Tapestry needle
Stitch marker

Gauge
18 sts x 38 rows to 4in/10cm on 4mm needles over Garter Stitch

Sizes
To Fit Size: 14 [16, 18, 20, 22] in/35.5 [40.5, 45.75, 51, 55.75] cm
Finished Size: 12 [14, 16, 18, 20] in/30.5 [35.5, 40.5, 45.75, 51] cm
Not sure which size to make? Check my handy size and measuring guide!

How to
Cast on 54 [63, 72, 82, 90] sts and join in the round, being careful not to twist the stitches.

Place stitch marker to indicate the start of the round.

Starting with a purl round, work garter stitch in the round (alternate rounds of knit and purl) until work measures 5.25 [6, 6.75, 7.5, 8.5] in/13.5 [15.25, 17.25, 19, 21.5] cm ending after a purl round.

Finishing

Fold work in half so that the wring sides are together and perform either a 3-needle bind-off or crochet bind-off to close the top.

Weave in all ends. Blocking isn't necessary.

Note

2 of the sizes ask you to cast on an odd number of stitches, and then at the end of the patterns you're asked to either 3-needle bind off or crochet bind off to finish the Hat. Now, before anyone worries, yes, you can finish this way with an odd number of stitches!

Both of these bind off methods work by alternating between 2 needles, so simply start on the needle that has the extra stitch and this ensures that you've finish on that extra stitch smoothly. Even if you don't start on the needle with the extra stitch, it's no problem to slip the last stitch over to the other needle to allow you to finish smoothly.

Remember way back before the summer, the genius idea of fitting a pattern onto one side of a business card struck me, and I had them printed up for the summer tour?

Well, now that the tour is long over and that all the business cards I had printed up have long since ran out, I thought I'd share some photos of the Hat itself, as well as the pattern. We had a wee photo shoot at the weekend and of course Aran jumped in front of the camera.

Aran loves his new Hat! Though the centre shot shows that he's not that great at putting it on straight himself yet...

I've had lots and lots of requests to make this pattern available to those who weren't able to grab a business card on the tour. And now that the summer has long passed, I’ve included it here!