School Color Hats

I have three cousins who are siblings who each went to a different one of the three state colleges in Iowa. This year I made them each a hat with the colors of their school.

Lion Hometown yarn. The yellow is Pittsburgh Yellow for each.

Size 11 needles

Knit in stockinet, my basic hat pattern (knit about 8 inches, decrease by 6 ( *k4, dec*, knit row, *k3, dec*, knit row, ect. until dec every stitch, cut yarn, pull through, seam)

Cyclone Hat

Tampa Spice (red)

CO 38
6 rows per stripe

Hawkeye Hat

Oakland Black

CO 44
6 rows per stripe

UNI Hat

Portland Wine

CO 44
I tried uneven stripes. I wasn’t as pleased with the results as I hoped to be.