Hat in Schachenmayr Catania - 5371 - Downloadable PDF

Free Knitted Hat Pattern in Schachenmayr Catania – Colorwork Design for Beginners and Beyond

This downloadable PDF knitting pattern from Schachenmayr guides you through creating a knitted hat worked in the brand's popular Catania yarn. The pattern is available completely free of charge and is formatted as a printable PDF, making it easy to follow at home or on the go. While the PDF content references a broader garment project involving colorwork panels, the hat design draws on the same rich Jacquard colorwork techniques and stitch vocabulary described throughout the pattern family.

What Is Being Made

The project is a knitted hat designed to be worked in sport weight yarn, specifically Schachenmayr Catania, a smooth, mercerized cotton yarn well known for its stitch definition and wide color palette. The hat is well suited to colorwork construction, as Catania's tightly spun cotton fibers hold stranded and Jacquard patterns with exceptional clarity, making every color motif crisp and distinct.

Colorwork and Jacquard Techniques

The pattern makes extensive use of Jacquard knitting, a traditional stranded colorwork method in which two or more yarn colors are carried across a row, with the non-working color floated or woven along the wrong side of the fabric. Several distinct Jacquard pattern sections are described:

• Jacquard Pattern B and C – Worked flat in both right-side and wrong-side rows, knitted in stockinette using the Jacquard technique and following dedicated stitch charts. These panels are repeated once across rows 1 through 4.
• Jacquard Pattern D – A structured colorwork repeat based on a stitch count divisible by 4, plus 2 edge stitches. On right-side rows, the pattern alternates 3 stitches in Signalrot (signal red) with 1 stitch in Golfgrün (golf green). On wrong-side rows, the pattern shifts, introducing Orchidee (orchid) as a third color, creating an offset visual rhythm that gives the motif depth and movement.
• Jacquard Pattern D1 – A sleeve variation of Pattern D in which the colors Signalrot and Orchidee are swapped, producing a coordinating but distinctly different colorway for contrast across garment sections.
• Jacquard Pattern E – Worked in both directions in stockinette using the Jacquard technique, following its own dedicated stitch chart.

An additional two-color rib or alternating stitch border is described, in which stitches alternate between Sonne (sun yellow) and Orange on right-side rows, with the colors reversed on wrong-side rows to create a clean, interlocked two-color effect at the brim or border of the hat.

Stitches and Construction Methods

The pattern relies on a focused set of knitting stitches and techniques:

• Knit stitches (rechts) – Used throughout right-side rows to build the stockinette fabric base for all Jacquard panels
• Purl stitches (links) – Used on wrong-side rows to complete the stockinette ground and to execute the color offset in the Jacquard patterns
• Stockinette stitch (glatt rechts) – The primary fabric structure used across all colorwork sections, worked flat with alternating knit and purl rows
• Stranded Jacquard colorwork – The defining technique of the pattern, requiring the knitter to manage multiple yarn colors simultaneously across each row while maintaining even tension
• Edge stitches (Randmaschen) – Selvedge stitches are maintained at each end of the needle to keep edges tidy and to facilitate seaming
• Offset color patterning – On wrong-side rows, colors are deliberately shifted relative to the right-side row beneath, creating diagonal or interlocked visual effects within the motifs

Sizing

The pattern includes multiple sizes, with instructions provided for sizes 50/56, 62/68, 74/80, and 86/92. The smallest size appears before brackets