This is my second pattern for a hat for Innocent's Big Knit 2011 (the first is a cupcake hat and can be found here). It's an apple hat, complete with a leaf and a stalk and it's very easy to make. All hats have to be sent in by 14th October 2011 - sorry for posting this pattern so late in the game!
Materials:
4mm needles
About 5g red double knitting yarn
Very small amounts of green and brown double knitting yarn
Hat
Using red yarn cast on 28 sts.
Row 1: K1, P1 to end.
Row 2: P1, K1 to end (this gives you two rows of moss stitch)
Change to stocking stitch and work 12 rows.
Decrease for the top:
Row 13: K2tog to end (14 sts)
Row 14: P2tog to end (7 sts)
Cut yarn, leaving an 8 inch tail, thread through live stitchess and use to sew up the side seam.
Leaf
Using green yarn cast one one stitch.
Row 1: Increase once into this stitch (2 sts)
Row 2: Increase once into each stitch (4sts)
Row 3: Knit
Row 4: K1, increase in next 2 sts, K1 (6 sts)
Rows 5 to 7: Knit
Row 8: K2, K2tog, K2 (4sts)
Row 9: Knit
Row 10: K2tog twice (2 sts)
Row 11: K2tog then cut yarn and pull the tail through the last remaining stitch to fasten off.
Stalk
Using brown yarn cast on 6 sts then cast them off again.
Making up
Sew up the back seam of the hat then sew the stalk and leaf on top as show in the picture. Done!
