FO: Cupcake Hat

Pattern: Cupcake from Wee Woolly Toppers by Woolly Wormhead
Yarn: Debbie Bliss Pure Silk DK, 1 x 50g skein in colour: 27006
Needles: 4mm circs and dpns

For me, this is the epitome of a spoilt baby hat. The other small people were lucky to get a couple of acrylic baby knits each (sorry boys; but I’m making it up to you now, aren’t I?!) and already this wee one has Wollmeise, cashmere and now silk for their noggin warmers. I’ve had this one lone skein of DB Pure Silk in my stash since 2006 when I bought it on a whim because it was new and lovely and expensive (hence one skein). Ever since I’ve been trying to find a suitable project for it and then last week I realised that all these baby hats I was knitting used small amounts of yarn and wouldn’t it be nice to use it for something that is very unlikely to get drool (or worse) on it…

Cupcake is the first design from the book that I’ve knit, but I think I’ll probably knit most of them. They’re perfect for using up small amounts of stash yarn and the patterns are just right for my urge to knit “funny” hats. I love the bobble on top, which is knitted and then stuffed before sewing shut, as it really does make the hat look like a cupcake!

The pattern warns that the hat will need severe blocking because of the cables pulling inwards, but the silk helps the cables to stay floppy, and the hat ended up a little bigger than I expected, but as I said before, who knows what size head this little one will have?!

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Thank you all for the suggestions and advice (and lack of name calling!) about the Cabled Raglan Baby Sweater. I think you pretty much confirmed what I’d suspected: it will look fine for either a boy or a girl, but will need tweaking to make it more “boyish”. I think this one will have to wait until I know for definite one way or another how many buttons I need to sew on.