leethal's big bulky bucket hat
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designed by Lee Meredith in 2008 for leethal.net. intended only for personal use. you can find more patterns and hand-dyed recycled yarn knit kits'for hats and other things, as well as lots of fun stuff made with recycled materials, at leethal.net. you can find more free knit patterns and a tutorial for dying your own yarn with kool-aid on leethal's blog, do stuff! (just click blog, categories, tutorials) it would be awesome if you shared a photo of your finishedhatwiththeleethal community. just go to the blog post for this hat pattern and leaveacomment, or sendleethalan emailat leethalkoala@yahoo.com.
you'll need about 80-90 yards of bulky yarn (handspun works great!), a set of size li dpns, and a crochet hook it's knit top-down! (so it's it easy to make it exactly as long as you want.)
co 4 sts on dpns
join around, kfb into each of the 4 co sts -easiest way for me to do this: co 2 sts on each of 2 needles kfb into first st with 1 needle, kfb into 2nd st with 2nd needle kfb into first st on 2nd needle with 3rd needle, kfb into last st with 4th needle there should now be 2 sts on each of 4 needles kfb first st of each needle as you knit around, until you have 15 sts on each (so 60 sts total) knit around about 9 rows, or about 2 1/2 inches, or until flattened hat measures about 6 inches from top kfb first st of each needle, one round knit 2 rounds with no increases repeat those 3 rows 2 more times knit one more increase round which should give you 19 sts per needle bind off, crochet a trim to prevent curling (in the example i single crocheted around twice, into the back loops only) block as needed
if you don't want a crochet edge, you could probably knit the last 4 or 5 rows in seed stitch instead. depending on your yarn, you may want to use make 1 in creases instead of kfb for the bottom section to prevent unwanted bumps.
and by the way... $\mathsf{c o}=$ cast-on $\mathsf{s t}(\mathsf{s})=$ stitch(es) kfb $=$ knit into front $+$ back
