How to Knit a Hat
13th
Feb
2012
how to knit
In this video, we’ll show you how to knit a hat using a fixed circular needle and bulky weight yarn.
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how to knit
Just made my first Knitting project aside from? a small scarf that I made to learn the stitches! Awesome instructions! I’ve been an avid crocheter for years but always thought knitting looked too hard. Cant wait to try another project! Thanks for the tutorial!!!
@UrbanBreK1 Unless you are working the hat in the magic loop method, your stitches will most likely get very stretched out using the 20″? needle.
@lillolly725 Generally, hats use 16″ needles or a needle circumference that is less than the circumference of the hat. That way, the needle circumference fits inside the hat circumference and your stitches won’t get stretches out. Alternately, you can use? a method called Magic Loop with your 29″ needle to complete the hat. We have videos on the Knit Picks channel that go over the magic loop method in detail.
@SuperSeaCucumber What weight yarn were you using? 150 stitches seems like it might be too many, especially if you were using dk or worsted yarn. An easy way to double check how many stitches you? need is to figure out the gauge of your yarn or the stitches per inch. Take the number of stitches per inch and multiply that with the circumference in inches. Ex: if you have 5 stitches per inch, and you want an 18″ circumference, you would need 90 stitches (5*18=90). Hope that helps!
@teriakraml You join your knitting at the beginning of your first row. Make sure that your working yarn is coming from your right hand needle, not the left, in order for the sides to join? together.
Hi, this is a great video! I’m a relatively new knitter and this is my first time using circular needles. I bought? size 8 needles with a length of 29 inches. I now realize they may be too long for a hat. Do you know if this pattern would work for the needles I bought?
i knit a hat for a friend? for christmas but it turned out extremely misshapen and large….i was using 4 dpns and i cast on about 150 stitches…also, i kept stretching the stitches while trying to knit them. would knitting with circular needles with fewer stitches give me a better result? (it was my first time knitting a hat so i don’t really know what i’m doing)
How does it connect? Wouldn’t it just be row after row? What do you do to make it a circle?
@LisaElizebethAshley Hi, one inch is just about 2.5 cm (4 inches = 10 centimeters). If your ball band doesn’t say what gauge is yarn knits up at? or if you lost the label, you can knit a swatch and then measure how many stitches are in 1 inch or 2.5 cm. For cm, take the circumference you want your hat to be, say 45 cm and divide that by 2.5 cm, which would be 18. Multiply the number you get by your stitches per 2.5 cm to get your number of stitches to cast on. (18*5=90 sts)
I really want to knit a hat too. But I live in Holland and we don’t use inches, we use centimeters and meters. They don’t put a number of stitches per decameter (10 centimeters) either, or anything like? that, don’t you have an other calculation for me?
@kayslove1 you can use double pointed? needles. i think they are easier
I knit my first hat thanks to this awesome video tutorial!
Would love to see? more videos for different techniques worked into a hat. It’s so much easier following video instructions than printed ones. Thanks again
@ExhalingNotes Without a pattern to follow, you could try making up your own colorwork chart of how you want the hat to look like using graph paper. You would use a technique for stranding (fair isle) or intarsia knitting. We have videos on both techniques on our Knit Picks channel. You can also use duplicate stitch, which is done afterwards -? though depending on how much patterning you want, it may be more time consuming to do.
I would like to make a panda hat.. To change colours should I just sew it in in the end? Or is there a way to put in the black knowing when to? knit it in?
@kayslove1 yes, in most hat patterns you will find that it will call for? circular needles – which are needles that are connected by a cord. However, there are patterns written to be knit flat and then seamed together at the end, in which case you can use regular straight needles.
Hey I want to knit a hat but do I absolutely need those plastic things at the end of my needles in order? to make a hat??
If I knit this on 20 inch circular? needles will it come out funky?
Me gusta. Que pena que no entiendo English! Si posible en los próximos trabajos, que tenga la traducción por? escrita en Español. Un abrazo
I love the idea of just pulling the circular part between the stitches a little to keep knotting? instead of messing with double pointed needles! Great video. Very simple.
@tinu96 the? brim is a result of that. If you don’t want a rolled brim, you can rib the first couple of inches (knit 1, purl one. Or knit 1, purl 2, whatever you fancy.
@hiphopgurlere You can only knit a tubular item (like a hat or sock) by knitting with circular needles or a set of 4 double pointed needles.? If you are knitting with regular needles, you need to join the seams and you can weave the top together to get the dome shape.
@chrissyvas What I gather from your comment is that your left with: one mask – one marker – one mask – one marker – etc. all the way around? In that case you take out every other mask and knit together the masks that are? now next to eachother. E.g.: Mask A – Marker B – Mask C – Marker D – Mask E -> Take out Marker B, but leave in Marker D. You should now be able to knit together Mask A and Mask C. – Hope that made sense
@jtasca14 When you start the? first row of your hat, you want to make sure to join the stitches in the round. This means, when you knit into your first stitch you want to hold your needles with the working yarn coming from the right hand needle. This will connect your stitches and make it so you knit in a circle. If your working yarn is coming from the left needle when you knit your first stitch, you will pretty much be knitting something flat – like a scarf. Hope that helps a bit!
i started it and i don’t know to have the? hat countiuous because there is a space where it’s nt conected it almost like i’m makin a scarf but im not????
Thank for your sharing! I want to knit new hat? the same it.