Stash-Busting Style: Knitting the Transmission Hat with DK Yarn

Looking for a hat that challenges your knitting skills plus uses up your stash of DK weight yarns? We’re delighted to share our knit sample of the Transmission hat, part of the Frequential: Six Waveform Hats collection by fabulous hat designer Woolly Wormhead.

Striped hat knitting pattern
Striped hat knitting pattern
Striped hat knitting pattern

KNITTING THE TRANSMISSION HAT

Woolly Wormhead’s Transmission pattern includes both a beanie and a slouch version. We chose to knit a sample of the slouch version, combining SweetGeorgia Merino DK as the main colour with a micro-skein of SweetGeorgia Tough Love Sock held double for the complementary colour. 

Any of the six hats in the collection are designed to use up one skein of DK weight yarn and about 20 yds / 18 m of the complementary colour. We love this potential for creating fun colour combinations. It’s a great option to combine that special skein with something from your yarn stash. However, if you’re looking for hand-dyed colour ideas, we have you covered with some suggestions below.

SweetGeorgia Merino DK yarn and Transmission Hat sample
SweetGeorgia Merino DK yarn skeins
  • Slate & Daybreak
  • Black Truffle & Tumbled Stone
  • Crushed Berry & Slushie
  • Slate & Silver
  • Lupine & Unicorn Hair

Planning for your own Transmission hat? We would love to see what colours you choose! Let us know in the comments or share your projects with us over at the SweetGeorgia Community. We love hearing how designs and hand-dyed colours inspire your knitting plans.

Striped hat knitting pattern

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Striped hat knitting pattern
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Transmission Hat

Knit flat from the bottom up and seamed at the back, explore short rows and hand-dyed colour pairings with Woolly Wormhead's fun hat design.
Craft Knitting
Maker Alison Lee
Designer Woolly Wormhead
Skill Level Intermediate

Equipment

Materials

Instructions

  • To knit the Transmission, download a copy of the pattern from Woolly Wormhead.
  • Once your gauge is determined, using main colour yarn, cast on the required number of stitches for the beanie or slouch version.
  • Work the brim following the pattern instructions. Place markers.
  • Work the body of the hat following the short row instructions. Included in the pattern is a knitting map to keep track of the changes of direction, as well as line by line instructions.
  • Work the crown. Break yarn and draw yarn through remaining stitches.
  • Finish using the cast on yarn tail, working mattress stitch.
    Construction of a striped, knit flat hat
  • Weave in ends and wet block the hat to finished measurements. Enjoy!
    Construction of a striped, knit flat hat

Notes

Pattern information from Woolly Wormhead:
Worked flat from the bottom up and seamed at the centre back, Transmission features a subtle wavelength pattern around the Hat. Worked in DK weight yarn, the pattern can easily be adjusted for a range of sizes by changing needle size, gauge or yarn.
This pattern is worked flat, knit vertically from the bottom up, and seamed at the back. The pattern is graded by gauge. Slight variations in yarn weight, needle size and/or gauge will be sufficient to change the size; swatching is advised. Two different Hat styles are included – beanie & slouch.
 

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