A friend of a friend asked me to make an Oscar the Grouch baby hat. The patterns I found didn’t have the right eye shape, so I made up my own. I love his eyebrows! The hat knits up to be about 14 inches around, but is very stretchy. It easily fits my friend’s baby with an 18 inch head. The shape of the hat is based on my Baby Turkey Hat pattern.
Materials:
- 5 Size US 6 double pointed needles
- Tapestry needle
- Vanna’s Choice yarn in White (W)
- Vanna’s Choice yarn in Scarlet (R)
- Vanna’s Choice yarn in Chocolate
- Vanna’s Choice yarn in Black (K)
- Vanna’s Choice yarn in Fern (G)
- Lion Brand Fun Fur in Chocolate
Note: For the brown (B) eyebrows, hold together the fun fur and brown yarn together as one strand.
Stitches Used:
Instructions:
Cast on 72 with G and distribute evenly on four needles
R1-R7: Knitting in round, KG 72
R8: KG 28, KK 16, KG 28
R9: KG 26, KK 7, KR 6, KK 7, KG 26
R10: KG 25, KK 7, KR 8, KK 7, KG 25
R11-R12: KG 24, KK 8, KR 8, KK 8, KG 24
R13: KG 23, KK26, KG 23
R14-R17: KG 72
R18: KG 27, KW 6, KG 6, KW 6, KG 27
R19: KG 26, KW 3, KK 3, KW 3, KG 2, KW 3, KK 3, KW 3, KG 26
R20: KG 26, KW 3, KK 3, KW 2, KG 4, KW 2, KK 3, KW 3, KG 26
R21: KG 23, KB 3, KW 3, KK 3, KW 1, KB 6, KW 1, KK 3, KW 3, KB 3, KG 23
R22: KG 24, KB 3, KW 5, KB 8, KW 5, KB 3, KG 24
R23: KG 25, KB 22, KG 25
R24: KG 26, KB 20, KG 26
R25: KG 27, KB 6, KG 6, KB 6, KG 27
R26-R30: Continuing in G K72
R31: (K4, k2tog, ssk, K4) six times
R32: K60
R33: (K3, k2tog, ssk, K3) six times
R34: K48
R35: (K2, k2tog, ssk, K2) six times
R36: K36
R37: (K, k2tog, ssk, K) six times
R38: K24
R39: (k2tog, ssk) six times
Cut the yarn with several spare inches. Thread a tapestry needle and pull yarn through all 12 stitches on needles. Work in ends.
Difficulty: Easy-Moderate
Time Required: 4 Movies
Overall Experience: Excellent
Sooooo cute!!! I love it!
Thanks!
I love your pattern and am trying it out however, confused on the changing colors working in the round. did you carry the yarn across the back of the hat each row? I feel like I should be doing intarsia and have a seam in the hat
thanks terri
I did carry the yarn across the back of the hat, twisting the carried colors every eight or so stitches. It is difficult when you are working with more than two colors. I tend to have too much tension in my work, so I have to be careful to not pull the carried yarn too tightly. It may very well work better with intarsia, but I haven’t personally tried it. If you do, please let me know how it goes!
Adorable pattern! If this is downloadable, could you point mebinbthe right direction?
Thank you,
CC