Description
🦘 DROP BEAR BEANIE — KNITTING PATTERN (PDF DOWNLOAD)
Every Aussie knows to look up before walking under a gum tree. The drop bear — the koala’s fanged, drop-from-above cousin — is our favourite national tall tale, and now he is a beanie. Koala-grey chunky knit, two round ears on top, a deep ribbed brim, and a row of little white fangs grinning along the front edge, right over your forehead. Wear it anywhere gum trees grow — or anywhere they don’t, and enjoy explaining it.
The beanie is knitted in the round from the brim up, in two sizes — Child and Adult — with every single round counted for you: the 2 x 2 rib brim, the plain body, and the eight-wedge crown shaping, round by round, down to the last 8 stitches.
✋ HONEST DETAILS
• Everything on this hat is KNITTED. The fangs are knitted directly onto the front edge of the finished brim, one at a time — picked up, worked over 3 little rows from the included chart, and fastened off in place. They are part of the hat: not sewn on, not glued, nothing to peel or come off in the wash.
• The ears are picked up from the finished crown and knitted in place in seed stitch — no sewing them on, and the ear base is as strong as the hat.
• There are no eyes, buttons or plastic parts anywhere on this design — a drop bear’s ears and fangs are quite enough. The only sewing in the whole pattern is weaving in your ends.
📏 SIZES
Child: to fit head about 46–52 cm (hat measures 40 cm around x 20 cm tall — the ribbed brim stretches to fit). Adult: to fit head about 54–59 cm (51.4 cm around x 24.2 cm tall). 7 fangs on the Child, 9 on the Adult, each with its exact start stitch listed.
🧶 YOU WILL NEED
Chunky (12 ply / bulky) yarn: Koala Grey — Child about 70 m (1 x 50 g ball), Adult about 102 m (2 balls); Fang White — about 4 m, one ball or scraps does both sizes (full stitch-counted yarn table, in metres, yards, grams and balls for both sizes, up front in the pattern). Plus 6.0 mm needles (circular + DPNs or magic loop), stitch markers, a yarn needle and scissors. Gauge: 14 sts x 19 rows = 10 cm stockinette.
📄 WHAT YOU GET
A 10-page PDF pattern: the fang chart drawn from the design (both sizes, plus one fang enlarged and explained), fully written and counted rounds for both sizes, ear instructions with exact pick-up positions, fang instructions with every start stitch listed, a stitch-counted yarn table up front, and photo pages showing the beanie from every side. Confident-beginner friendly.
💛 MORE FROM OUR SHOP
You might also like our Kangaroo Road Sign Cushion Cover Knitting Pattern, our Aussie Proud Beanie & Scarf Knitting Pattern with its Southern Cross charts, and our Rugby Chevron Scarf and Beanie Knitting Pattern — another chunky knit.
All sales are final on digital downloads, but if you get stuck on a round, message us — we are always happy to help a fellow drop-bear wrangler.
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