Lucky Little Shamrock Hat- Knitting Pattern

According to finegardening.com :

"Shamrocks have been symbolic of many things over the years. According to legend, the shamrock was a sacred plant to the Druids of Ireland because its leaves formed a triad, and three was a mystical number in the Celtic religion, as in many others. St. Patrick used the shamrock in the 5th century to illustrate the doctrine of the Holy Trinity as he introduced Christianity to Ireland.
 
The shamrock became symbolic in other ways as time went on. In the 19th century it became a symbol of rebellion, and anyone wearing it risked death by hanging. It was this period that spawned the phrase "the wearin' o' the green". Today, the shamrock is the most recognized symbol of the Irish, especially on St. Patrick's Day, when all over the world, everyone is Irish for a day!The original Irish shamrock (traditionally spelled seamróg, which means "summer plant") is said by many authorities to be none other than white clover (Trifolium repens), a common lawn weed originally native to Ireland. It is a vigorous, rhizomatous, stem-rooting perennial with trifoliate leaves. Occasionally, a fourth leaflet will appear, making a "four-leaf clover," said to bring good luck to the person who discovers it."

My little shamrock baby hat is size 6-12 months and made with straight needles size 4 and 6. This is a fair isle type knitting pattern so you will need to know how to carry your floats (lots of youtube videos can teach you how).

Using your size 4 needles and your white yarn cast on 88 stitches.

K2 P2 each row until you have 1 1/2 inches of ribbing.

Change to size 6 needles and knit in stockinette stitch for 6 rows but you will want to increase by two stitches in your first knit row (one row knit, one row purl) (90 sts)

Now you will start to follow the graph on your next knit row. Remember that your knit rows will go from right to left and your purl rows will go from left to right and, of course, you are working  the bottom of the graph to the top. You should have 6 shamrocks around your hat when finished. 

 When you finish all  the chart you should be on a knit row (as the lasts row on the chart is just a purl row in white)  and you will then cut the green yarn and tie it off and weave in the ends, with white do six rows in stockinette stitch again. 

Then you will begin your decreases,
K4, K2tog across
P row
K3, K2tog across
P row
K2, K2tog across
P row
K1, K2tog across
P row
K2tog across
P row
K2tog across,K1

Cut yarn leaving enough to thread through remaining stitches and sew up hat seam. Make pom pom using both colors and tie firmly to top of hat.
I am hoping to have a pattern for mittens to go with this hat soon! Keep watching the blog!

You may not sell any of my patterns or alter them in any way. Please feel free to share the link to the pattern for anyone who might like to use them.

Little Love Mittens--Knitting Pattern

With your size 4 needles cast on 40 stitches.

K2 P2 each row until you have 2 1/4 inches

You will change to your size 6 needles on the next row

Increase on your first knit stitch  and your 20th in the next row which will be knit. (42 stitches)

Purl next row

Knit row

Purl row

Knit row

Purl row

On your next row you will start the heart so will be adding in your pink yarn. You will follow the same chart for the hat but I will write it out so you will know how many white stitches to do.

K30, K1 pink, K11

P10, K3 pink, P29

K28, K5 pink, K9

P8, P7 pink, P27

K26, K9 pink, K7

P7, P8 pink, P26

K26, K4 pink, K1, K4 pink, K7

P8, P2 pink, P3, P2 pink, P27

This will finish the heart and you will start your decreases. 

K2, K2tog across, knit 2 at the end.(32)

P row

K1 K2tog across,  knit 2 at the end (22)

P row

K2tog across (11)

P row

K2tog, knit one at the end (6)

Cut yarn leaving enough to sew mitten, with needle thread through remaining stitches and sew down the side.

To make second mitten you must reverse the stitches you did for the first one for the heart only. For instance, on the first row, instead of it being K30, K1 pink, K11, it will be K11, K1 pink K30. This way both seams for the mittens will be on the pinky side of the hand. 

I hope you enjoy this pattern. If you see any errors please contact me :)

You may not sell any of my patterns or alter them in any way. Please feel free to share the link to the pattern for anyone who might like to use them.

Little Love Hat- Knitting Pattern!

So I saw a hat and mittens set on Etsy and bought the pattern and there were large errors throughout the pattern. Not just a stitch off here and there but WHOLE sections of the pattern that weren't correct at all. And then the heart on the mittens....to me...was upside-down and it said on the mittens after making the first one you should "make one to match" and if you did that, you would end up with mittens that had seams on the same side since this was a two needle knitting project.
Anyway...I ended up just writing my own pattern. I knew I could do that when I bought the pattern but sometimes you just want to make it easy on yourself and follow someone else's pattern but that didn't happen.
This is a type of fair isle knitting so you will need to know how to do some floats (there are plenty of videos on youtube) but there is only one row of hearts so there aren't too too many. I am going to give the directions for 6-12 months hat only because that is the only one I have done so far as I do other sizes I may add them to this pattern. I will give directions to the mittens on the next post.

I used Caron Simply Soft Yarn and US size 4 and size 6 straight knitting needles.

Start with size 4 needles and white.
Cast on 88
K2 P2 for 1 1/2 inches

Switch to size 6 kneedles on this row. We will be starting stockinette stitch here. Knit one row, Purl one row for 6 rows total.

Now you will start the heart following the chart below with your contrasting color and still knitting a row and purling .

Now we will start rounding the crown. You should have ended so that you are on a knit row. 

K5,  K2tog across row

P row

K4, K2tog across row

P row

K3, K2tog across row

P row

K2, K2tog across row

P row

K1, K2tog across row

P row

K2tog across row

P row

K2tog across row

P row

Cut yarn leaving enough to sew hat. With a needle thread yarn through the remaining stitches and pull gently to close hat. Sew up back seam of hat. Make pom pom using both colors. Tie firmly to top of hat. 

You may not sell any of my patterns or alter them in any way. Please feel free to share the link to the pattern for anyone who might like to use them.