Cute bear hat

At the moment I'm doing a lot of knitting as I have some friends expecting a baby soon, so I've been knitting some little hats and currently progressing through a baby blanket.

At church on Sunday night, they were showing the England v France football match, (which didn't end well for us) and for those who didn't want to watch the match, the Muppets film was being shown in another room.

As I was trying to knit in the dark with Kermit and Miss Piggy on screen, my friend Beth saw the little hat with bear ears on it and asked me if I could knit one for her and that she would pay me for it. Well I wasn't going to turn that down, and I wanted to knit an adult size bear hat for ages but never got round to it.

I didn't use a pattern off the web, instead I just adapted a pattern that I already had and attached ears to it :)

I used 5mm and 6mm straight needles.

Cast 108 sts using 5mm needles.

Do a K2, P2 rib for 6 rows.

On the 7th row P2, P2tog (P4, P2 tog)

Change to 6mm needles

Beginning with a Knit row, continue in stocking stitch until the hat measures about 23cm from beginning, ending on a Purl row.

Shape Crown

1 - K1 (K2tog, K3) k2tog, k2

2 - Purl

3- k1 (k2tog, k3)

4 - Purl

5 - k1 (k2tog, k2)

6 - purl

7 - k1, (k2tog, k1)

8 - purl

9 - k1, k2tog

thread yarn through remaining stitches and pull tightly. Sew up the hat and weave in the ends.

Ears x 2

Using 6mm needles cast on 12 sts

Work in garter st for 8 rows

9 - K2tog, k to last 2, k2tog (10 sts)

10 - k2tog, knit to last 2, k2tog (8 sts)

11 - k2tog, knit to last 2, k2tog (6 sts)

12 - k2tog, knit to last 2, k2tog (4 sts)

Rows 13 - 16 increase 1 st at the beginning and end of each row until you have 12 sts again, Work in garter st for 8 rows and cast off.

Sew up the ears and attach to hat.