Celebrate love and warmth with the Hearts & Arrows Hat: Bigger Love Version, a charming upgrade of the beloved original. Featuring bold stranded colorwork, this hat showcases larger, more prominent hearts and arrows, symbolizing love in its grandest form.
Crafted with cozy worsted-weight yarn, this design knits up quickly and provides extra warmth, making it perfect for chilly days or Valentine’s Day outings. Whether you’re gifting it to someone special or making it for yourself, this eye-catching hat is a heartfelt statement of love, care, and creativity.
Skill Level: Intermediate
Size: Finished Circumference 18.25 (20, 21.75)”
2-3” negative ease recommended.
Shown in size 20”
Gauge: 20 sts and 24 rows = 4” [10 cm] in stranded St st after wet blocking
Materials
Yarn: Malabrigo Merino Worsted (100% merino wool; 210 yards [192 meters]/100 grams): 508 Blue Graphite (MC, 1 ball for all sizes), 63 Natural (CC1, 1 ball for all sizes), 242 Amor Intenso (CC2, 1 ball for all sizes)
Needles: US 7 (4.5mm) 16” circular needles and dpns
Notions: Marker, tapestry needle, 3” pompom maker or faux fur pompom
Pattern Notes
When working the stranded sections, bring the contrast color under the main (background) color.
Pattern
Using circular needle and MC, CO 88 (96, 104) sts. Join to work in the round and PM for BOR.
Work in K2P2 ribbing for 1.5” as follows:
Rnd 1: *K2, p2* to end.
Repeat Round 1 for K2P2 ribbing.
Next Rnd: K, increasing 2 (3, 4) sts evenly—90 (99, 108) sts.
Knit 2 rounds.
Join CC1 and begin working from Heart and Arrow Chart. Chart will repeat 10 (11, 12) times around hat. Join CC2 when necessary.
Crown Decreases
When Chart is complete, break contrast yarns and continue with MC. Work in St st until hat measures 7.25” from cast on.
Crown Decreases
Rnd 1: *K7, k2tog; rep from * to end—9 (10, 11) sts dec’d.
Rnd 2: Knit.
Rnd 3: *K6, k2tog; rep from * to end.
Rnd 4: Knit.
Rnd 5: *K5, k2tog; rep from * to end.
Rnd 6: *K4, k2tog; rep from * to end.
Rnd 7: *K3, k2tog; rep from * to end.
Rnd 8: *K2, k2tog; rep from * to end.
Rnd 9: *K1, k2tog; rep from * to end.
Rnd 10: *K2tog; rep from * to end.
Break yarn and draw through remaining sts, cinching tight.
Finishing
Weave in ends and block.
Either tie a faux fur pompom to the top of the hat, or make one using one strand each of MC and CC1 (or any combination you prefer.)