New York Yankees Hat Pattern

Wind one bob with white. You will only need a yard or so.

This pattern involves working intarsia in the round. I will provide a brief tutorial of the only manner in which I know how to work intarsia in the round. If you wish to use another method, feel free. However, if you do not wish to work intarsia in the round, you can simply work the hat flat, ignore the tutorial, and sew the seam later. I hate sewing seams so much I took the trouble of learning this technique to avoid it.

If you do not wish to knit intarsia in the round or knit the hat flat, you may simply knit a plain navy cap (either flat or in the round) and attach the Yankees logo in duplicate stitch later. I find that intarsia looks better, though.

Pattern:
Cast on 100 sts with Navy. (Increase or decrease the number of sts in multiples of 10 for a larger or smaller hat. Alternatively, you could use a smaller or larger needle size.) Join, being careful not to twist work. Place marker to indicate end of round.
Work in K1P1 rib for 3 inches.
Switch to St st and work 1 inch St st.

Here the pattern begins. I centered the pattern in the front of the hat, beginning it after 45 sts. Place one stitch marker at each end of the pattern to help keep track of your sts.

To work intarsia in the round, I used the following method:

Work the first rnd of the pattern as you would with flat knitting.

When you reach the end of the rnd, turn your work so that you are on the wrong side (just as you would with flat knitting). YO and work back across the second row of the pattern with purl sts. Work the last st of this rnd together with the YO from the beginning (P2tog).

Turn, YO, and knit the next rnd, again working the last st with the YO from the beginning of the rnd (ssk).

Continuing in this manner, you are essentially knitting flat but joining each row at the end.

When you have finished the chart, if you are on a wrong side row, finish that row and then turn and do the YO and work the next knit row entirely in the background color; ssk that st with the YO. If you are on a right side row, simply continue with plain knit rnds.

The chart is based on Meredith Davey's Yankees socks, only I turned it right side up (the original was upside down since the socks were worked top down) and tweaked it a bit:

This is the legend to the chart.

This is the chart in color. I left the symbols in place in case the colors on your monitor or printer are not the same as mine.