Xmas Tree Helmet Hat

Mrs. T was walking in the woods with her daughter P. The girl was wearing her Xmas tree hat, decorated with wooden beads.
“I’m still cold,” she told her mother. “I want a hat just like the one I wore when I was still a toddler.” She meant a helmet hat. “But it has to look like an Xmas tree too, with a real trunk on it!” So there in the woods little P. designed her first hat! It’s the Xmas Tree Helmet Hat.

Back at home, Mrs. T climbed the stairs to her stash attic, grabbed some green and brown yarn and took 4 of us out of our box. First she knitted this Xmas tree hat again. Then she picked up 48 stitches from the last garter stitch row and knitted two rows in garter stitch 2. Then she cast on 32 extra stitches. (They form the open part in the helmet) She divided the 80 stitches evenly over the needles en connected them in the round and knitted 20 more cm/8 inches in garter stitch. The extra warm Xmas Tree Helmet Hat is finished! Mrs. T didn’t decorate this tree so P. can also wear it after Christmas!


You can of course use any Xmas tree hat pattern as basis. If necessary, adapt the number of stitches you pick up and cast on. (Mrs. T used a few less sts for the trunk as for the tree itself)

(Pictures were taken at the farm where Mrs. T buys her Xmas tree each year!)