Hats with Bramble pattern in Schachenmayr Universa - S6896A

Hats with Bramble Pattern in Schachenmayr Universa – S6896A

This free downloadable knitting pattern from Schachenmayr (pattern reference S6896A) provides instructions for knitting a cozy, textured hat featuring the classic Bramble pattern — known in German as Persianermuster. The finished hat is designed to fit a head circumference of approximately 54–58 cm, making it a great one-size-fits-most adult accessory. The total height of the finished hat measures 25 cm, creating a generously sized beanie with a folded or ribbed brim.

What Is Being Made

The pattern produces a knitted hat worked in the round (seamed after knitting flat), featuring a deeply textured body and a neat seed-stitch brim. The hat is worked in two sections: the main body in the Bramble pattern and a separately picked-up brim worked in Perlmuster (seed stitch). The two-yarn-strand construction gives the finished hat excellent warmth, structure, and stitch definition.

Techniques Used

• Casting on stitches for the main body of the hat
• Flat knitting with a seam closed at the end
• Crown shaping through evenly distributed decreases worked over multiple rows
• Picking up stitches from the cast-on edge to work the brim separately
• Binding off the brim stitches to finish cleanly
• Gathering remaining stitches at the crown and drawing them together with the working yarn to close the top
• Seaming to join the side edges of the flat-knitted piece into a hat shape
• Working with two strands of yarn held together throughout for added weight and warmth

Stitches Used

• Bramble Stitch (Persianermuster) — the primary stitch pattern used for the main body of the hat. The Bramble stitch is a classic knitting texture stitch that creates a dense, bobble-like surface resembling a cluster of berries or the texture of a Persian lamb fleece. It is typically worked by alternating knit-and-purl combinations within the same stitch and across rows, producing a rich three-dimensional fabric that is both visually striking and exceptionally warm.
• Seed Stitch (Perlmuster) — used for the 6 cm brim section, picked up from the cast-on edge. Seed stitch alternates knit and purl stitches in a checkerboard arrangement, creating a flat, reversible, and slightly elastic fabric that lies neatly without curling — ideal for hat brims.
• Left-leaning purl decreases (2 stitches purled together) — used during crown shaping, worked 16 times across a row and then repeated every second row a further three times to reduce the stitch count from 82 stitches down to 18, and finally to 10 stitches before gathering.

Materials Required

• Yarn: Schachenmayr Universa — a DK weight yarn — in Green shade 00172, with 150 g required. The pattern is worked with two strands held together throughout, which effectively creates a bulkier, warmer fabric from this DK base yarn.
• Needles: Milward knitting needles in two sizes — size 7–8 (metric) for the main Bramble-pattern body, and size 5 (metric) for the seed-stitch brim section.

Pattern Details and Sizing

The hat begins with a cast-on of 82 stitches worked on the larger needles with two strands of Schachenmayr Universa. The Bramble pattern body is knitted to a height of approximately 14 cm, after which crown decreases begin at row 22. Decreases are worked as purl-two-together, distributed evenly between edge stitches, reducing 16 stitches per