Easy hat with stranded knitting and beads. You can change the size by altering the size of the yarn and needles you use. I used DK yarn and cast on 100 stitches. The hat fits heads size 21” to 23” easily.

This hat, with its ridges and valleys, makes me think of the Pacific Crest Trail along the shoulder of Mt. Eddy. Mt. Eddy is the tallest peak in the Klamath range, home to beautiful animals, wild-flowers, water and woods.

Easy striped hat with traveling stitches and slipped stitches. Uses a small amount of four different colors, so it is a good stash buster also.

Two-color stranded knitting. I found it fairly easy to knit so I think that if you are new to stranded knitting this shouldn’t be too hard for you. If you are experienced at stranded knitting, this will be a quick knit.

This textured cowl is based on a couple of scraps of linen weave found in an archaeological dig in York (UK). The weave has an interesting pattern that I thought would translate well to knitting. Once knitted up it looks like a twill with seemingly random vertical stripes.

I was looking through online art museums at African art, admiring the lines, angles, shapes. I saw some photos of carved drums and liked the angles and lines of the carving. I’ve tried to capture that in this hat.

Reverse engineered for YarnaSASn, from a thrifted piece of knitting she found. Not tested, and not an exact reproduction, either. The best I could do!

This hat is inspired by the beautiful indigo fabrics of West African people, specifically the Dogons of Mali, West Africa. The hat has a folded hem, although you can substitute a ribbed hem, if you like. The stranded knitting makes for a warm hat. Use any sport-weight yarn, although I recommend wool or wool blends.

This is a thick, cushiony hat because it is made with heavy yarn and a double layer created by stranded knitting. At my gauge, after blocking, the sample hat measures 22 inches in circumference and it is 8 1/2 inches from edge to crown.

This hat is based on Chinese lattice designs. Although it looks complicated, it is actually easy to knit. Stranded knitting, only two colors, very few long floats.

This hat pattern is inspired by photos of ancient Roman tiles, some of which look quite modern in spite of being 2000 years old.

What’s hiding under your bed? Take a peek and you might find these flaming eyes looking back at you.

The central pattern of this hat is often found on baskets and hats made by Northern California native tribes, especially the Yurok, Karuk and Hupa groups along the Klamath River. I’ve seen it called Waxpoo in various sources, but the meaning of the word isn’t known. I include my sources at the end of the pattern.

Brontoscorpio is the name of a fossil scorpion discovered in England. It lived in the Silurian period, about 400 million years ago. Since all they found was a bit of the pincer, which they extrapolated into a 36-inch scorpion, I figure my scorpion is as likely to look like the original as any.

Colorful stranded knitting

This hat is inspired by a photo I saw of an antique Roman tile floor. I was struck by the dissonance between the border of the pattern, which looked rustic, and the center pattern, which looked modern and well-made, almost slick. The two designs didn’t seem to relate to each other, either.

This hat is inspired by binge-watching too many episodes of the British show Time Team. I liked the Roman mosaic floors they found, made with little tiles called tesserae, and some of the hats I saw in the shows. It is much easier to knit than it looks, and is very warm because the stranded knitting makes a double layer of yarn. You can also us...

This is a cozy hat based on a traditional design used by Northern California Indian tribes, the Yurok, Karuk and Hupa, mostly located on or near the Klamath River. The design is an open hand or open fingers. Some sources call it “frog fingers.” Northern California tribes make traditional designs in baskets designed for many uses, including exqu...

I saw a woman waiting in the doctor’s office with the most wonderful hat. I asked her about it and she said she was a Yurok Indian from the Arcata/Eureka, California, area. Yurok Indians make amazing museum-quality traditional basket hats. I couldn’t buy one of their hats, they are very expensive, but I knew I could knit one. This hat is the re...