This past week I’ve been working on two hats. One for myself (Thorpe) and one for a friend. Her hat was interesting, to say the least. I didn’t feel like knitting all the details so I just duplicate stitched it. Sure, it’s a little messy but I was so sick of looking at brown yarn I could have puked. So anyway, here is a picture of my Thorpe and a picture of her Goomba hat, followed by a picture of a real Goomba (from Super Mario Brothers!!) for comparison:
Goomba Hat (I need to vacuum…. gross! I’m totally on that tomorrow…):
Aaaaaaand a real Goomba:
Sexy, right? I gave it to my friend and she absolutely loved it.
I love your thorpe hat – I just started knitting and see people with that style hat all the time. I want to try knitting it myself but had no clue what they were called and how to make one. Can you help me find an easy pattern? The goomba hats are so cute, amybe I’ll try one of those too.
The Thorpe hat is actually just the name of the particular pattern that I used. They are most commonly known as ski hats or earflap hats. The first pattern I ever used is this one: http://www.knitlist.com/95gift/ski.htm. It’s pretty easy and knits up quick. The pattern for the Thorpe hat can be found here: http://throughtheloops.typepad.com/through_the_loops/2007/12/i-knit-through.html. That one is top down so it’s a little tricky to start but once you get it going it’s super easy. I hope that helps you. Good luck!
Hi there, I tried both links and it gave me an error for both ?!?
I’ll try again later – I’ll try searching for earflap hats… Thanks!
Weird. I tried them too and they didn’t work today. I don’t know why… if you search for “Ski hat with ear flaps” you get the knitlist ski hat link that I gave earlier and it works. If you’d like to try the Thorpe hat, I would just try searching for “Thorpe knit pattern” and I’m sure you’ll be able to find it.
I need to go investigate why those links are not working!