There is nothing better than visiting a yarn shop and wandering aimlessly through the shelves in order to find your next treasure. Well, nothing better than wandering said yarn shop with my husband. Though he’s not a knitter, you will not find a non-knitter who is more excited to engage in the community. So when we visited The Elegant Ewe in Concord before our daughter was born, I found myself laughing as he selected his own sock yarn and fell in love with a hat design before begging me to knit it for him.

The Homestead Button Flap Hat is not a garment that I would make for myself, nor is it a garment I would expect him to wear on a regular basis. That being said, I can remember the moment his eyes spotted the shop sample vividly. To say they lit up like a kid in a candy shop for the first time would be an understatement. In fact, it was one of those moments where I would have knit him the object no matter what it was (well almost no matter what it was).

The hat itself is a free pattern designed with Plymouth Yarn’s Homestead in mind. Hubs selected a navy tweed in the yarn line and we took home a printout offered by the yarn store. It took me about 5 days to complete the project, but I probably could have cranked it out in a day or two if I had really set my mind to it.

Once the giant yellow button was attached, this hat became a winter staple. Hubs even packed it in his hospital bag because he wanted to meet our daughter in it! I’m not sure I would make this pattern again unless asked, but I highly recommend it if you’re looking to make a hat with a different construction.