Sugar Bowl Hat in Schachenmayr Lova - DC1016

Sugar Bowl Hat in Schachenmayr Lova – DC1016: A Detailed Pattern Summary

The Sugar Bowl Hat (DC1016) is a free downloadable PDF knitting pattern published for Schachenmayr, designed to create a cosy, textured winter hat with charming decorative details. The finished hat is sized for a 48.5 cm head circumference, making it a great fit for adults or older children. What makes this design particularly distinctive is its combination of a spiral rib body, an eyelet (lace) round, a knitted I-Cord drawstring, and playful tassel knots at each end of the cord — all worked in a super-chunky yarn for a quick and satisfying knit.

What Is Being Made

This pattern produces a chunky knitted hat with a close-fitting ribbed structure and a gathered, drawstring-style crown. The I-Cord is threaded through an eyelet round near the top of the hat, then tied into a bow or loop around the hat's peak, with decorative fringe knots at each cord end. The overall effect is a snug, stylish beanie with a distinctive, sugar-bowl-inspired silhouette.

Materials Required

• Yarn: Schachenmayr original Lova in grau-grün spot, colour 00083 — 150 g (3 balls) of this super-chunky weight yarn. Lova is a voluminous, soft yarn well suited to fast, cosy projects.
• Circular needle: 8 mm, 40 cm length — used for knitting the hat body in the round
• Double-pointed needles (DPN / Nadelspiel): 8 mm — used for working the I-Cord
• Crochet hook: 5.5 mm — used for attaching the tassel fringe knots to the I-Cord ends
• Stitch marker — to track the beginning of each round
• Tapestry/wool needle — for weaving in ends

Knitting Techniques Used

• Knitting in the round — the hat is constructed entirely in the round on a circular needle, avoiding seams for a smooth, comfortable finish
• Spiral rib pattern (Spiral-Rippenmuster) — the main body stitch pattern, which shifts the rib alignment by one stitch every two rounds to create a spiralling, dynamic texture
• Eyelet / lace round (Lochmuster) — a single decorative round of yarn-overs and decreases that creates a row of small holes through which the I-Cord drawstring is threaded
• I-Cord — a narrow, tubular cord knitted on two double-pointed needles by sliding stitches back and knitting from the same end each row, producing a neat rope-like cord 69 cm in length
• Fringe tassel knots — lengths of yarn are folded, looped through the I-Cord ends using the crochet hook, and pulled through to form decorative tassels; each tassel uses 6 strands of yarn cut to approximately 20.5 cm

Stitches Used

• Knit stitch (Maschen rechts) — the foundation stitch used throughout the rib and I-Cord
• Purl stitch (Maschen links) — alternated with knit stitches to form the rib texture
• 2x2 rib base — groups of 2 knit and 2 purl stitches form the underlying rib structure, shifted each round to create the spiral effect
• Yarn over (Umschlag) — used in the eyelet round to create the decorative holes for threading
• K2tog / knit two together (2 Maschen rechts zusammenstricken) — a right-leaning decrease paired with yarn-overs in the eyelet round, and also used to close the I-Cord at its end

The Spiral Rib Pattern in Detail