(Image description: Six knit hats laid out in two rows of three. From top left: light blue body with triangles of textured stitches and a ribbed brim in shades of purple, a plain hat with puddles of green and blue, a brown and black striped ribbed beanie with blue stripes in the brim, a bubble-stitch teal hat with black and neon blue, purple, green, and pink striped brim, another green and blue hat from the same yarn as the one above it, and a sparkled black hat with short teal brim.)

September’s official hat count is six. Technically there are a few sitting here next to me that are finished and waiting for ends to be woven, but since they will be coming out of the bath in October, I’m counting those for October. These hats are made from a combination of scraps, reclaimed abandoned projects, and a couple partial skeins I found in the bag with the abandoned projects.

To keep this easy on me, I’m just going to go clockwise from top left in these explanations. We start out in the top left with a combination of a reclaimed baby hat and one of those found skeins. Process: Provisional cast-on 80 stitches with size US 8 needles, knit until I ran out of the purple and green variegated yarn, which pool-striped nicely at this gauge, and then bring the bottom up to create a doubled brim, switching to size US 10 needles and the teal yarn. Then I worked pattern 18 from “Keiko Okamoto’s Japanese Knitting Stitches” (pg. 13) four times around and repeating all 16 rows twice. Then I worked it in a modified manner across the decreases for the crown, but if I do this again I’d just knit the crown instead of carrying the pattern up.

Next we have the green and blue hats, which I’ll explain together because they are literally the same thing. The yarn for these is reclaimed from a C2C pattern I was creating that I ran out of yarn for. I created a magic knot ball and used some of it for the border of my scrap blanket. Then I decided to chain the entire rest of it, and use that to knit as many hats as possible, which turned out to be a large and a small one. I started each at the top with a crocheted magic ring before picking up
the stitches on knitting needles (size US 13, I think) and knitting a fairly basic hat pattern. You can find a reel of bits of the process here.

Last across the top row is the sock-weight scrap hat I’ve been working as my on-the-go project for a while using the helical knitting method to make sure I ran out of all the yarn at the same time and give the nice stripe pattern I ended up with.Below that is another hat in a similar manner to the first hat, but with an extra 8 stitches to make it a large (going for a fairly even mix of medium and large adult sizes
with some small mixed in), and using pattern 11 (pg. 11 / 45).

Our last hat, bottom left, is the same at the previous hat, using pattern 24 (pg. 15), though it may be difficult to see in the sparkly black yarn.

I’ve gotten into another set of reclaimed yarn from a sweater that was entirely too warm for me to wear ever, so I’m hoping to at least make another 6 for October. I’ve got another blanket to take apart, as well.