hi and welcome to knit with Hannah I'm Hannah I'm here with knitting natter
to help you learn to knit the easy way. What I'm doing today is sewing an
invisible seam with mattress stitch along an inside-out stocking stitch.
This is the textured side you can see that- that's the outside of this hat, and this
is the smoother side on the inside. So most people, when you're knitting a
pattern the rule is that this is the wrong side of the knitting, But I want
this to show I think it gives a really nice style to the hat and also that means
we've got this little bit of interest here as we change a colour. So I am sewing
one stitch at a time, one row at a time. I'm going down this picking up the
stitches to create the seam. A mattress stitch is creating an invisible seam
that is the style of it and I go from the right side here to the left side
just picking up stitches. Let me show you that more in more detail. Right here I'm
picking up this little bit of wool here, that joins the penultimate and the last
stitches together on that row- so I'm going to pick that piece up with the
needle and there you go that's one more stitch on the seam. I'm going to now look
here.There it is that- is that little piece of the stitch that connects the
penultimate and the last stitch, so I pick that up and then I do exactly the
same thing over here I pick up that little piece of wool there that's
connecting the penultimate and the last stitch. That's part of the seam and I
just work my way down the seam, one stitch at a time. It is that simple.
There you go, and when you're making a hat it will say right at the end it will say, most likely
cut the yarn and wind the thread through the remaining stitches.
So once you cut the yarn you'll need to make sure it's long enough to create the whole seam you
put it on your needle and you move it through the remaining stitches that's
the top of the hat, and then you'll carefully
one stitch at a time, one row at a time
you'll work your way down the seam with mattress stitch that's as easy as it is
Well, thank you for joining me today, I'm going to finish making this hat!
If you like this pattern and would actually like to make it yourself it is
on my website it is called the boys2men two-tone pom pom beanie that's right
I'm gonna put a big pom-pom on the top here with this contrast color. If you're
making a hat for a boy or a man this is my little tip, choose a color with muted
interest and then use a neutral alongside it.
Most of my hats for boys they've got some kind of grey, be that a
light grey or a charcoal gray or black or navy or a dark brown that is what I
call the neutral and if there's another color along with it then I would choose
something that's a muted colour, that's not too bright, that's not too shocking
you know what boys are like they will actually wear it. And they'll actually
really like it as well this hat has been very much appreciated I made one with a
cranberry colour with a black, with a cranberry pom-pom on the top
it still is very much loved by the by the boy who ended up with it.
Right, well thank you very much for joining me I will finish creating the seam, finish the hat.
and I'll see you again soon I hope- bye for now, Happy Knitting!