Easy Beanie Tail Winter Hats
by
DesertRose
2 Materials
$4
4 Hours
Easy
The easiest way to make a warm winter hat that allows for the pony tail is on a knitting loom. The knitting loom allows for knitting without any of the counting or fuss that are required in needle knitting. Anyone can learn to loom knit. They also make the warmest hats you will find and are much cheaper than store bought hats. Besides, they make great gifts.
You will need a knitting loom, a hook which comes with the looms (mine is a home made one I use), and a skein of yarn. Three videos at the end will demonstrate this project. Loosely loop the yarn on the pegs. Begin and end on the same peg. Looms have a mark on the side to allow you to know where you started. If you use a home made loom, just use an odd colored golf tee for one peg.
After you wrap the yarn on the pegs, loosely begin lifting the wrapped loop over the skein yarn. Continue all the way around until you come back to the starting point. I must emphasize, you want the yarn to be loose or the stitches will get too tight to continue. Now, continue until the unused yarn is about 3 times the size of the loom. You will use this end to tie off the loom. See the video for tying off.
The hat will be double warm if you bring the bottom of the knitted hat up to the inside and tie it with the stitches you use to tie off the hat at the end. Just match the end with the beginning by running your finger down the hat from the first peg to the first stitch.
There are many sizes of looms for adult hats, child size, doll or baby size, socks, mittens, and even blankets. I will have a video post soon on how to make a blanket with a large loom. They make great gifts for the homeless or elderly.
This size is for a small child, but there is an opening in the top for a pony tail. The ends are rolled up to add extra protection for the ears. Here are three videos I hope will help clarify how to make a loom beanie tale hat. Little girls love wearing beanie tale hats and putting another matching hat on their doll baby with a pony tale showing on their head too.
So there are many ways to share your new craft with loved ones and even strangers. This hat took me about 4 hours. An adult hat takes about twice that much time from a full large skein of yarn. Loom knitting is good use of time when you are watching the news or t.v. in the evening, because it does not require concentration or counting. You just knit!
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Beginning the yarn on the loom.
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Continuing the knitting around the loom until the yarn has about two or three feet left at the end. Thread an embroidery needle or very large needle to the end and tie the yarn back to the last loop. Your needle will have a double threaded yarn. Put the needle under the loop where you tied the yarn and lift the loop off the peg. This is the tying off of the hat. Continue to lift the yarn off all the way around the loom.
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If you have doubled your hat, include the loop from the bottom of the hat by bringing it up to the center of the loom and with each tying off, also make a pass through the loop of what was the first loop. See the video.
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Put the needle under the loop on the peg, take a stitch in the other end right beside it as it is up in the middle, and go to the next peg. Repeat all the way around. Pull the yarn on the embroidery needle tight enough to pull it together, but leave a hole big enough to pull a pony tail or bun through it. Turn the hat inside out to hide the tied yarn and you have your beanie tail hat for winter!
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I knew it would be cute!
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Thank you Jennifer, they are cute.
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