Hats with Bramble pattern in Schachenmayr Universa - S6896B

Hats with Bramble Pattern in Schachenmayr Universa – Free Knitting Pattern S6896B

This free downloadable knitting pattern (S6896B) from Schachenmayr guides you through creating a cozy, textured hat worked in the classic Bramble stitch (also known as the Persianermuster or Persian pattern). The finished hat is designed to fit a head circumference of approximately 54–58 cm, making it a great one-size adult accessory. The total height of the finished hat measures 25 cm, giving it a generous, comfortable fit with a folded ribbed brim.

What Is Being Made

The pattern produces a knitted hat featuring a richly textured body worked in the Bramble stitch and a neat folded brim in seed stitch (Perlmuster). The combination of these two stitch patterns creates a hat that is both visually striking and warm, with the Bramble stitch adding considerable depth and dimension to the fabric. The hat is worked flat and then seamed, making it accessible to knitters who are comfortable with basic flat knitting and finishing techniques.

Materials Required

• Yarn: Schachenmayr Universa – 150 g in Cyclam shade 00135. Universa is a smooth, versatile DK-weight yarn well suited to stitch definition, which allows the Bramble pattern's intricate texture to show clearly.
• Needles: Milward knitting needles in two sizes – 5 mm (for the brim) and 7–8 mm (for the main body). The larger needle size is used in combination with the doubled yarn to achieve the correct gauge and a soft, squishy fabric.
• Important note: The entire hat is worked with the yarn doubled (two strands held together throughout), which contributes to the hat's warmth and the characteristic puffiness of the Bramble stitch.

Techniques Used

• Working with doubled yarn: Holding two strands of Schachenmayr Universa together throughout the project creates a thicker, warmer fabric and enhances the three-dimensional quality of the Bramble stitch.
• Flat knitting with seaming: The hat is knitted flat (back and forth in rows) and the side seam is closed at the end, making it approachable for knitters who have not yet mastered knitting in the round.
• Crown shaping with decreases: At approximately 14 cm height (after 22 rows), decreases are worked by knitting 2 stitches together purlwise, distributed evenly across the row. These decreases are repeated every other row a total of four times to shape the crown neatly. The remaining stitches are then drawn together with the working yarn to close the top of the hat.
• Picking up stitches for the brim: Approximately 64 stitches are picked up along the cast-on edge using 5 mm needles to work the folded brim separately, a technique that creates a clean, professional finish.
• Casting off: The brim stitches are bound off after 6 cm of seed stitch, and the seam is then closed to complete the hat.

Stitches Used

• Bramble Stitch (Persianermuster): This is the signature stitch of the pattern and requires a stitch count divisible by 4 plus 2 selvedge stitches. It is worked over a 4-row repeat:
  • Row 1 (RS): Purl all stitches.
  • Row 2: Selvedge stitch, then alternate between purling 3 stitches together and working 3 stitches into 1 stitch (knit, purl, knit into the same stitch), repeat to end, selvedge stitch.
  • Row 3: Purl all stitches.
  • Row 4: Selvedge stitch, then alternate between working 3 stitches into 1 and purling 3 together (the reverse of Row 2), repeat to end, selvedge stitch.
  The alternating increases and decreases within the same row keep the st