This adorable Hot Air Balloon Hat is a riot of color and fun! You can customize your hot air balloon for anyone from baby to kid to toddler!
Rarely does my family tell me my designs need to be MORE. But as I was working on this cute hot air balloon hat knitting pattern, my husband said, “this needs hot air balloon patterns all the way around!” And he was totally right.
This cute hat is knit in the round with circular knitting needles and double pointed knitting needles and worsted weight yarn. The cloud pattern is knit in the round using fair isle knitting techniques and basic knowledge of this type of stranded knitting is required to complete the project.
Then, when you have finished knitting the base cloud hat pattern, you can add the hot air balloons with duplicate stitch in knitting. Duplicate stitch is a type of embroidery where you literally duplicate the knitting stitches with different colored yarn on top to create designs.
If you are new to duplicate stitch or need a little duplicate stitch refresher, check out my super detailed duplicate stitch knitting tutorial.
The best part about this hot air balloon knitting pattern is the fun you can have designing your own hot air baloons. The color choices are totally up to you. The largest hot air balloon design has a classic diagonal stripe. This one looks amazing in solid color with white stripes. You can change the color of each stripe, or you can work the large diagonal stripes in an ombre pattern which you can see in the sample photos. They are so cute!
The little baskets under the hot air balloons are added with a few short straight embroidery stitches and really make this hot air balloon pattern come to life. If you knit one, please share it with me!
Hot Air Balloon Hat Knitting Pattern
Sizes included: 0-3 months, (6 months, 1-2 years, 3-6 years, Child Large/Adult Small, Adult Large) Read our sizing guidelines post for more information.
Gauge: 19 stitches = 4 inches
- Worsted weight yarn
- US 7 (4.5 mm) 16″ circular knitting needles
- US 7 (4.5 mm) double pointed needles
- Yarn needle
(If you need help, my favorite knitting reference book for everyone from beginners to advanced knitters is THIS ONE!)
This cute pattern is available for sale only. When you purchase this pattern, you’ll get an instant download PDF pattern in a few nicely formatted easy-to-print pages that includes written instructions and step by step photos. This pattern is available in my Etsy shop or on Ravelry where it will also be permanently stored in your Ravelry pattern library.
Happy Knitting!
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