My son in his choo-choo toque
This pattern is now available on ravelry.com
For personal or charitable use only. LGN, 2012.
* I had some ravelry comments that mentioned that the long strands can be difficult to deal with if you’re a novice at stranded colourwork. If you are doing more than 5 or 6 consecutive stitches in one colour, just tuck the other strand around every 4 to 5 stitches.
Knit three together 
Would you work the train pattern from the bottom-up?
Yes, I did. Although, I have noticed a few people on ravelry used the colour chart on otherwise plain top down sweaters…
My son definitely wants one! I don’t have patience for a sweater just yet.
Knitting pure and simple has some really fast, simple toddler/kid patterns…I’ve been planning to use one with the train chart, but like you I just don’t have the patience right now….
What is the best way to make the hat larger? I was thinking of adding a couple of stitches between cars of the train… And perhaps a few mor between repeats…
That could work. It depends on how much larger. You could add another car to the train by repeating the second car. Someone on ravelry made theirs larger by making a single train and just repeating the central car as many times as necessary. Adding stitches between the cars is probably the easiest, but it makes your floats longer especially in the top rows.
Thanks for this pattern! I’m using the choo-choo motif on the front of a vest for my little guy
You’re most welcome!