The Centre Knitter’s Guild has started a monthly knit-a-long! Join us each month in 2025 as we knit a new hat together, and explore various techniques, from stranded colorwork to knit and purl textures. At the end of each month, you can share your hats with the rest of the guild at our monthly guild meetings, or share your progress with the other KAL knitters on our Ravelry page!
We’ll continue our knit-a-long into 2026 with a semi-monthly cowl KAL! Every other month in 2026, starting in January, we’ll be knitting a new cowl pattern. Since cowls take a bit more time and effort to knit, we’ll be doing every other month instead of every month, but we hope you’ll join in! Keep an eye on our Ravelry page for the announcement of January’s pattern!
November 2025
November’s hat is the Arrows hat by Laura MICHAUD. It’s knit up in DK weight yarn with some simple color work, for a hat that’s easy to make even if you haven’t done much stranded colorwork. Check out our Ravelry discussion page to join in on the fun this month!
October 2025
For October, we’re knitting a potato chip pattern (you can’t make just one!) The Headband with a Twist is a super simple brioche pattern knit up in DK or Worsted weight yarn, then seamed together to create the twist, with the seam completely hidden! Keep an eye out on our Ravelry group for the discussion page, led by Julie.
September 2025
We’re back at it with another Tin Can Knits design this month! This time we’re doing the Antler Toque, another free pattern from their learning to knit series. This hat features simple cables, perfect for both experienced and beginner cable knitters. Between the worsted weight yarn and the cables, this hat promises to be warm, perfect for the fall as the weather gets colder. Join the discussion and knit-a-long on our Ravelry page, or just pop in to see what everyone else is doing with this pattern. And if you have a smartphone or tablet, don’t forget to download the Tin Can Knits app, which makes knitting this pattern a breeze! Thank you to everyone who joined in for September’s hat knit-a-long, we had quite a few lovely hats at the meeting to show off!
August 2025
It’s Shetland Wool Week time, and you know what that means! Join us as we knit the Shetland Wool Week hat pattern, Aal Ower Toorie. The pattern is £2 (about $3), but the money goes towards the upkeep of the museum on Shetland. This pattern takes 8 colors of Jamieson & Smith, but some of them are in pretty small amounts, perfect for using up scraps from previous projects! Check out our Ravelry page for August’s hat to see what we knit up in August, and thank you to everyone who joined in.
July 2025
In July, we knit the Lace Edged Women’s Hat by Julie Hentz. This hat is knit in DK weight yarn, and has a cute lace pattern around the brim of the hat instead of ribbing, so it works up pretty fast. Check out our Ravelry page for July to see what our knitters created with this pattern!
June 2025
For our June hat KAL, we’re mixing it up a little with the Anthology hat recipe by Tin Can Knits! This free pattern gives the instructions for a hat, cowl, or tubular cowl base in multiple sizes and yarns, and includes various “plug and play” motifs for you to design your own colorwork hat! The pattern encourages creativity and playing with different yarns, colors, and patterns in your hat. Check out the Ravelry page set up by Julie to see what our knitters knit up, and thank you to all who joined this month!
May 2025
For May, we’re doing the Latvian Braids All Day Long Hat, perfect for spring stashbusting! You’ll need a ball of fingering weight yarn for your main color, but the braids give you plenty of room to play with all of the fingering weight scraps in your stash. And due to the nature of Latvian braids, you won’t even need any ribbing for your brim to lay flat! Keep an eye out on our Ravelry group for the May hat discussion board if you’d like to join in on this month’s KAL or just follow along with everyone else knitting this month’s hat.
April 2025
For April, we knit the Barley Hat by TinCanKnits! It’s a simple hat pattern knit primarily in stockinette stitch, with a section of garter stitch to keep the pattern interesting and add some texture. It’s available for free for sock, DK, or worsted weight yarn, so it’s the perfect pattern for (almost) any yarn in your stash! You can find some lovely progress photos and some of the hats that didn’t make it to this month’s meeting on the discussion board in our Ravelry group.
Here are the two that were shown off at our meeting:
March 2025
The hat pattern for March was the February Hat by Kate Gagnon Osborn. Several guild members joined us in knitting this free pattern in worsted weight yarn, with lots of fun textures! Check out the discussion board on Ravelry for progress photos and tips from some of the people who joined in, and thank you to everyone who knit a February Hat with us this month!
All the lovely hats that were brought to our April meeting:
February 2025
Our February hat was the Crofthoose Hat pattern from Shetland Wool Week, knit in lovely Jamieson and Smith yarn. Several knitters joined in on the KAL this month on Ravelry, and we had a few hats at the meeting to show off! Here are Julie’s, Sarah’s, and Trudy’s finished hats!
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