10,000 Knitted Hats is a fun and clever flip-page instruction book for designing and building your own unique headwear creations.

This interactive knitting book contains photographs of different hat brims, bodies and crowns that can be combined in a total of 10,626 ways to create unique hat patterns. Once you've chosen your design, turn over the pages for the correct written pattern for that combination of parts. You can then use the handy embellishments section to add any extra features to the basic design.

The hat brims, bodies and crowns use many stitches, some familiar and others new. Find colour work, both easy and more challenging, along with slipped-stitch patterns, cables, lace and texture, all explained clearly in the handy techniques section. Aimed at all ability levels, there is something for everyone. You'll never need another hat book!

• 23 basic hat designs, with the potential to create over 10,000 unique combinations of brim, body and crown
• Clever and fun flip-page resource
• Includes a variety of techniques in a clear and easy-to-use format, suitable for all abilities
• Personalisation - add extra features with a handy embellishments section
• Every pattern comes in three adult sizes

About the Author
From UK knitting magazines to big international yarn brands, you can find Jo Allport's knitwear designs in many places. She also teaches knitting face to face, online and via tutorials. A lover of all crafts and a prolific writer on the subject, she is a regular contributor to Knitting magazine and Let's Knit. Jo has been designing knitwear for over 12 years, but this has not been her only career. Starting in the oil industry and then moving into IT after that, she brings many other disciplines to her work. Her love of working with people, attention to detail and, most of all, her creativity, have all led her to her current passion, knitting. Follow her on Instagram and find her designs on Ravelry. Jo lives in Stirling, UK.

Reviews

Create the hat of your dreams - or your wildest imagination - with this fun flipbook that allows you to mix and match hat brims, bodies and crowns to build a hat completely unique to you. In 10,000 Knitted Hats, regular Knitting designer and techniques guru Jo Allport celebrates choice and allows knitters to create something truly special. Anyone who thought the body of the hat was the only interesting bit, and that crowns were standard decreases and brims were standard ribs, is in for a big surprise. ... This really is the only hat knitting book you will ever need - now the only challenge is choosing which combination you will knit first!

-- Christine Boggis * Knitting magazine *

Celebrating the special ability we knitters have of creating something totally unique, this clever book allows you to mix and match the brim, body and crown of a hat to create your own combination - of which there are 10,000! Simply flip the pages to line up the three parts you want to join using the images, and the pattern is opposite. Discover a world of stitches and textures, and the limitlessness of your own creativity!

* Let's Knit magazine *

Jo Allport is a Simply Knitting favourite, and '10,000 Knitted Hats' is her publishing debut. If you're wondering how Jo can make such a bold claim in a single volume, here's how it works: she invites you to build bespoke hat patterns by mixing and matching brims, bodies and crowns in a clever flip-page format, with techniques for all levels including colourwork, cables, lace and more.

* Simply Knitting magazine *

My "hat" goes off to you Jo Allport for this brilliant idea of creating your own design combos. 10,000 Knitted hats is a book that gives one an opportunity to design their own hat. Simply flip over the pages to choose your favorite and start to knit. I love this concept! As a knitting designer, I love having options and this book definitely gave a variety of unique and clever ideas. ... I've never seen a knitting book published this way. Also, the illustrations were well done. I highly recommend this book.

* Sweetly Made Just for You blog *

The book is aimed at complete beginners or slightly more advanced knitters and all of the patterns are worked in double knitting wool. ... a good starting off point for those who want to create their own designs.

* SlipKnot magazine *

10,000 Knitted Hats is a fun and clever flip-page instruction and 'how to' book that is specifically for designing and building your own unique headwear creations. Unique and thoroughly 'user friendly' in organization and presentation, 10,000 Knitted Hats is a knitter's delight and unreservedly recommended...

* Mid-West Book Review *


Awards
Short-listed for Creative Books Awards - Best Knitting Book 2023 (UK).



Book Information
ISBN 9781784946319
Author Jo Allport
Format Hardback
Page Count 80
Imprint Guild of Master Craftsman Publications Ltd
Publisher GMC Publications