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Deadpool-inspired Knit Hat (Now with a pattern)

This Deadpool-inspired hat is a happy accident, which is probably Deadpool’s favorite thing. Aside from chimichanga.

Photo of a woman smiling at the camera, wearing a knitted hat and a Marvel t-shirt

It originally started as a hat for someone else. But as I started working on it, I decided I had to have it. It was going to be a sports team–inspired hat, but as I worked the ribbing, I altered the plan.

Photo of the back of Amy's head. She is wearing a hat inspired by Deadpool, in mostly red with some black and white colorwork knitting. The hat has a picture pompom that resembles Deadpool's face.

I totally winged the colorwork design. The decreases were a happy miracle of things working out just perfectly. I came across this super awesome pompom tutorial (yes, that is a thing I said) around the same time I started the hat. And having just finished reading Deadpool Killustrated around the time I finished this hat, I decided that this hat would get an extra special twist.

Photo of the back of Amy's head. She is wearing a knitted hat with a picture pompom that resembles Deadpool's face.

DEADPOOL POMPOM.

It’s not the best pompom in the world. Admittedly I kind of hated the idea of pompoms for the longest time, so I don’t have much practice—but I’m so stupid excited about it. And I have plans to make some other comic book character designs. This is not the first, though–you may remember my Carol Corps mitts.

Photo of Amy's head, showing the detail of the colorwork section of the hat.

There’s no pattern—like I said, I totally winged this as I was going. If you’d like a pattern, let me know, though I make no guarantees that it will happen. I’d have to do a lot of counting and stuff and probably pay someone to tech edit it because I didn’t even think to write down notes (though I did draft up the chart… or at least part of the chart, I need to go back and check the decreases).

Have you knit a happy accident—something that started life as one project but ended up as something even better?

An Update

A few years after I first winged this hat, I wrote down the pattern. You can get the pattern for free at Berroco.com. There are a few differences:

  • In this version, I used a tubular cast on and did some fiddling to work a 2×1 rib at the bottom. In the pattern, I still used a tubular cast on, but it’s for 1×1 rib.
  • The colorwork section is the same, but the pompom is less fun. It uses three colors of yarn though, so it’s still festive.

5 Comments

  1. What a fantastic and unexpected result. Looks fabulous with the lipstick as well.

  2. Mandy B. Mandy B.

    I would never call that hat an accident – I would be walking up to total strangers and saying “See my hat? It’s an original; I designed it myself!” It’s totally awesome and a pattern I would buy in a heartbeat.

    • Amy Amy

      I have been so tempted to do just that but have resisted thus far!

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