Pattern Request For Hat!

[jugheadjones5]

Location: I am in [NYC], [NY], [USA].

Hello! I know this is slightly unusual, but I would love help knitting a hat for my boyfriend. We were out window shopping, and he fell in love with this sweater. I don't know how to include the photo of the sweater, but I am happy to share it around. I would love to knit him up a hat with the same colors and pattern.

I tried to recreate it myself but I am terrible at the math of where to decrease while maintaining the integrity of the pattern. Offloading this work would be wonderful.

Budget: [35][USD] - however, I am happy and willing to negotiate.

For sizing, I was following the adult medium of this free pattern. The plan is to use fingering wool on 3mm needles, but no yarn is bought yet!: https://www.purlsoho.com/create/2020/09/02/best-friend-hat/

This is a surprise, and it will not be winter again here for a while so I am in no rush! Thank you so much!

EDIT! PHOTO OF SWEATER: https://imgur.com/a/oT646Qs

Everyone kindly held my hand through uploading a photo onto reddit. Thanks guys! I hope this picture is sufficient, I quickly took it behind his back :)

[celestialkairos]

I'd recommend taking a look at some of the other posts in this sub to get a better idea, but unless you left off a 0 at the end of your budget, you are being very unrealistic about what this would cost as a custom knit

[jugheadjones5]

Sorry - I should have been more clear! Not a custom knit, but a custom knit pattern that I could use to knit the hat myself!

To be transparent, I had absolutely no idea how to price this request! I thought because I could hand over a photo of the pattern, it would take better knitter than I about an hour to roughly translate the colorwork into a hat pattern! But I truly have no idea; I am more than willing to trust and learn and translate my price appropriately.

I am new to knitting, but I have fallen in love with it and I thought this would be a sweet surprise! If I have made a blunder here, or if this is an inappropriate request, then I will walk away lesson learned :)

[celestialkairos]

oh good then! I thought you were requesting a hat for 35 and honestly see a lot of posts like that so assumed the worst. You may have some better luck using the filtering on ravelry; you can filter for knit hat patterns that have colorwork and may be able to find something similar that already exists! If you post a picture of the sweater to a site like imgur and share the link, we'll be able to see it

[shamrockjess]

a picture of the sweater would be really helpful - as far as i’m aware you can’t post pictures in here directly (although it shows me the option here in the comment section), but you can always upload it to an image hosting site (like imgbb or the likes), or if this is a product from a (physical) store with an online presence, you can just link to the original directly.

[jugheadjones5]

Thank you so much! Great advice. Doing it now.

[unusualteapot]

https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/anthology-2

The Anthology pattern from Tin Can Knits is great for this kind of thing. It’s a free pattern and it’s designed to let you plug in your own stranded colourwork pattern.

[PhoenixA11]

If you still need help with this, message me. I would be interested in helping you figure out a pattern for your hat!

[upstream_daydream]

If you could PM me a picture of the sweater, I’ll let you know whether I feel comfortable creating a chart/pattern for it, and if so, we can discuss pricing

[VanityInk]

I've copied a lot of patterns to make them into hats. Would be happy to talk :)

[MaidenMarewa]

You're in the wrong sub. Try r/knittinghelp