I love getting up at the crack of dawn on Saturday morning, just after the sun begins to warm the earth, to get first pick of the fresh picked dahlias, green beans, kale, carrots, and strawberries at the Farmer’s Market.
They’re great, but let’s be real – the thing that really gets me up out of bed that early on a Saturday morning is for the dark roast coffee and fresh baked cinnamon rolls oozing with frosting and butter.
One of those Saturday afternoons, I was digging though my stash for another project and noticed that my basket of scraps looked just like the colors and textures of the flowers, berries, and vegetables at the market. I immediately cast on with a small ball of hand spun and other random bits of my hand dyed wools – and I couldn’t be happier with how it turned out.
If you’d like to knit a hat inspired by your local farmer’s market, download the FREE pattern below.
Farmer’s Market Hat Supplies
- 220 yards/ 100 grams of worsted weight wool yarn. (Approximately 0.5 oz of each color. Mixing colors, textures and weight gives the best results. I love putting a variety of colors in a basket, then pulling them out blindly.)
- Size US 6 (4mm) 16”circular needle
- Size US 10 (6mm) 16” circular needle
- Size US 10 (6mm) double pointed needles
- Stitch marker
- Darning Needle
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Thanks for the hat pattern. I like to find ones I can make out of scrap yarn for charity or little gifts.
Thanks for sharing the free hat pattern. I'm going to make it for my 8 yr old. I love when I can make things out of stash.
We have a very big saturday market here but I don't think that it's quite the equivalent to 'farmers markets' in the US. Ours is very expensive! But we have a 'honey' lady who has great products.
Hope your stir fry was good. I'm trying to grow Kale for the first time this year and can't even get it to sprout!
Many thanks for the pattern
You're welcome!
I haven't tried growing kale yet, either. I'm planning on adding it to next years garden for sure, it's delicious!
My pleasure, Adele. 🙂
Thanks for the pattern! I love your blog and your stuff! 🙂
that hat is amazing! so wonderfully colorful
Love the hat. Beautiful colors!
Wonderful!