Knit Hat With a Loom
Introduction: Knit Hat With a Loom
In this Instructable you will be learning how to make a neat knitted hat.
First we will make the hat with a circle shaped loom.
Supplies
* Knifty Knitter
* Yarn
* Scissors
That's it,
for your yarn, if you want a big fluffy hat, you can use one strand of bulky yarn, like I am using, But if you want a nice thin silky hat, you can use four or five strands of thin yarn, so that there are only small holes in you hat.
Step 1: Wrapping Around Your Loom
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Start off by making a slip knot with your yarn, and put it onto the peg that is sticking out of the loom. This peg is called the "Holding Peg". You can also just wrap your yarn around the peg a few times.
If you look to the left of your Holding Peg, there is a peg that is called the Starting Peg, and to the right, is the Ending Peg.
Take your yarn and, going counter clockwise around the Starting Peg, wrap it around once, as shown.
continue wrapping around your loom until you get back to your Ending Peg.
From here, push all the loops on the pegs down, then go around a second time, but note that this is the only time you will go around twice, because you do not yet have two rows (Also note that if the yarn between pegs is on the outside, you are doing it the wrong way).
Step 2: Knitting Off
Now that you have two strands around your loom, you are ready to knit off.
Start by taking your picking tool (the tool with the metal rod that bends at the end) and place it in the bottom of the groove in the Starting Peg. take your pick, and grab the first row, or the one nearer to the loom. 557
pull it over the second row, and over the peg.
Continue this process until you reach the ending peg once again. You have completed one row.
Step 3: Making the Brim
Keep Wrapping and knitting off until you have double as much length as you want your brim to be.
Now flip the hat inside out, so that all the yarn is on the top side.
take your tail end from when you started, and pull it out and straight onto your holding peg, so that it is in between your starting peg and ending peg.
Next, find the loops from your first row, and start putting them on your loom, starting from the one just left from your tail. This will fold the hat over itself, and make your brim.
When you are finished, just knit off, because making the brim replaces the wrapping part.
Now just keep making more rows like before, until you are ready to finish it.
Step 4: Finishing the Hat
Once you are happy with your hat, it is time for the last few steps.
On your last knit off, don't pull the string down.
First, cut off your yarn, making sure you have about a foot of tail.
Next, wrap some more yarn three times around the loom, like so.
Cut the yarn, then fold it in half evenly, and put the folded part 4-5 pegs to the right from the starting peg, then put it around the loom, so that it is below the single string from your hat.
Now, starting from the Starting Peg, take your single string, carry it over your double string, then back under the double string so that the single string is back to where it started.
Repeat all the way through the loom, making sure not to miss any pegs, or the whole thing will come apart.
Once you come back to the loop you made with your double string, just take it off and continue until you have gone through every peg.
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Step 5: Taking It Off the Loom
now you will see that you have three strings, two of them being from your double string that you wrapped around, the other one being from the end of your hat. take everything of the loom, making sure that the double string does not come undone
lightly pull the two ends of the double string together, so that it makes the top of your hat.
after it is as tight as it can get, make a simple square knot with the two ends, then tie the single end to the two other ends.
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