The Kitty Cat Hat!
Someone asked if it was doable on the loom, and here it is!
Base Pattern: Ro's Earflap Hat
Modifications:
-Used maybe 1/4 skein of Mainstays yarn and 1.5 skeins of "knitting" fun fur in tan.
-Added ears.
New Pattern:
Ears:
Cast 6 pegs onto a green Knifty Knitter. Do 4 rows back and forth.
Here's where it gets a bit tricky:
E-wrap peg 6 (go from left to right, leftmost peg is 1 and rightmost is peg 6) and knit off. Move the loop on peg 6 to peg 5. Ewrap and knit off all pegs back to peg 1. Do another row of e-wrap (pegs 1-5).
Continue this process until you have two pegs left with loops on them. E-wrap two rows, move the loop on peg 2 to peg 1, knit off. E-wrap peg one again and knit off. Send the yarn through the loop and knot off.
Repeat this process 4 times to make 4 "ears".
Take a pair of ears and whipstitch together the sides NOT the bottom. Repeat for the other pair of ears.
Lastly, whipstitch the bottoms of the ears to the hat. I recommend doing it on each side so the ears remain stiffly out.
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The ears are way customizable: for a rounder ear, halve the amount of ewrap rows at the beginning and end. for a more even triangular ear, do continuous decreasing rows instead of an e-wrap row in between. do an inside and an outside ear pair - pink on the inside first ear, fur on the outside second ear.
This hat fit me even with a large head, so feel free to customize it!
Oh, and I mustn't forget to credit my model, Siam the cat.
2 comments:
I am new to loom knitting. When it says do 4 rows back and forth what exactly does that mean?
Hi Kimmie! Normally you would go around the loom each time, where you would start at peg 1, go to peg 6 and then go to peg 1. In this case, back and forth means that you are going to start from peg 1, go to peg 6, and then on the next row, you are going to go from peg 6 to peg 5, back to peg 1 (like turning left and right).
Does that make sense? :-) We've all been new at some point!
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