The Kadence Hat

This hat is a fun and quick knit that looks great!

Do you have a stylish kid in your life that would love a unique hat? Knit them the Kadence Hat! It’s a fun project that works up quickly! This pattern features an easy to knit seven round repeat after a textured brim.

This hat is bursting with flair and has quite the personality! The cables are a nod to the traditional beanies, but the bobbles make it super fun! Knit it in the recommended yarn or something similar to give it even more pizazz. And don’t forget the pompom! Great for boys or girls, this is a fun and warm hat that kids will love to wear all winter long.

This hat is designed to be warm and functional on top of being absolutely adorable. A hat is only good if a kid will actually wear it!

Also, if you need to customize the hat to achieve a better fit, you can easily do so by adjusting the number of stitches in sets of 13.

What gives the Kadence Hat its stylish look?

The Kadence hat combines the simplicity of a traditional cable with the three dimensionality of the bobble stitch. You can learn how to knit both of these through written instructions featured in the pattern.

If you can knit, purl, and cable, you can learn to knit this hat. It does use Knit togethers, knit front and back, knitting through the back loop, slipped stitches (for the decreases), and purling together (for the bobbles). All of these stitches though are simple extensions of the knit and purl stitches and can be easily learned. If you have questions, need to trouble shoot something, or just want to reach out, you can always get in touch with me.

I think the combination of these two elements makes it playful and youthful. But I also love it so much that I’ll probably make this in an adult size soon!

What do you need to knit the Kadence Hat:

Yarn: Caron Simply Soft Party from Yarnspirations. 1 Skein for the smaller size. I needed just over one skein or 164 yards for the larger size.

Part of what makes this pattern is the yarn. I’m usually not a stickler for recommended yarns. That being said, if you are knitting this for a kid, a sparkle or bright color is highly recommended! This particular yarn comes in bright colors with the gossamer thread, but you can also find loads of yarn on their site if you need a specific color.

Needles: US Size 5 needles for the brim and US Size 7 needles for the hat. I use a DPN to knit my cables because it’s easy and available but if you prefer to use a cable needle, you’ll need one in something close to a US Size 7.

To keep it super fun, a pompom is the perfect topper for this hat.

You can get the pattern here.

The Story Behind this Hat

There is a very special and very sweet girl to whom I had given one of my early hats. This hat was intended to be adult sized, and was one of my first attempts at knitting a two sided or multi-layered hat. It came out super small but adorable. So I gifted it to little Miss K and she loved it.

Miss K wore that hat until she could no longer fit into it. Her mom sent me the sweetest text telling me just how much she loved the hat and how bummed she was to not be able to wear it. I’m sure they’ll find someone else to love this original hat, but I just had to knit something else for Kadence.

This sweet girl is just too cute, and she’s got her mom’s eye for fashion. Literally she’s putting together a spring look book with fabric swatches from her mom’s sewing pile. She’s lightyears ahead of her time. So the pressure was on to find a cute design that she would love. And rather than knit her something that I had already published, I wanted a hat that would be all her own. It’s similar to the Grace Hat Pattern for adults but the cables are smaller for her petite frame.

The Kadence Hat was Born!

To knit this hat, I dove into my yarn stash. I knew that somewhere buried deep inside this stash was the perfect yarn. It was a black yarn base. Perfect since she was experimenting with a lot of black at the time. But, it has a gossamer thread of a rainbow sparkle which gave it that “something special). It’s hard to see in the pictures but the yarn turned out perfectly.

Since I knew Miss K would be wearing the heck out of this hat, I had to make it warm. I sized down my needles and made a folded brim. The brim I knit together to make it easier for a kid to wear. You can’t keep fussing with your hat and play in the snow at the same time!

This playful pattern knit up in a night! Okay, to be honest…I spent all night knitting but it was so much fun and so cute that I couldn’t stop. I couldn’t put it down. And it turns out, neither could she!

I’ve got loads more patterns for adults and for kids. If this one isn’t quite what you’re looking for, be sure to take a look around!