How to knit the BUBBLE BEANIE HAT.
Hi! I'm Kristen and welcome back to my channel STUDIO KNIT!
The bubble stitch and my bubble beanie hat pattern has been so
popular this past year I thought it was high time to create a corresponding
video for you this is a great hat if you enjoy changing yarn colors and are
comfortable knitting on circular needles the written pattern is available over on
my website studio knit totally for free I also have the
downloadable PDF pattern that is paid and it is on Etsy as well as Ravelry and
over on Ravelry you'll see literally hundreds of knitters have been making
these bobble beanie heads and it's great to browse through for inspiration to see
everybody's color choices and just how happy everybody has been knitting up
this bubble beanie hat so I hope you join along for yarn you'll want bulky
number 5 worsted weight works well too but I really prefer bulky for this
project for the shorter beanie size you'll want 120 yards and if you want to
do a longer slouchy style then about 140 yards is great and you'll see that the
yarn I'm using it's called Karen and Pantone and this is great because they
have exactly the right amount of yarn and beautiful color choices I will have
a link to where you can purchase that however feel free to use whatever you
have in your stash any fibre have fun with it your knitting tools our circular
needles these are size number 8 us and 16 inches in length along with double
pointed needles also size and you'll want scissors and a tapestry
needle so let's knit it up to begin we are taking our circular needle and
casting on just the simple longtail cast on method is what I'm using and we
started out by casting on 64 stitches in total
before joining in the round of course you want to make sure that you are not
twisting your stitches and I want to share an optional little trick that I
like to do I add an additional stitch I take the right needle and I simply slip
one stitch from the left to the right and then I add my stitch marker and for
my first stitch I knit those first two stitches together and it just helps me
join my yarn in the round a little bit more securely so and this is just
something I like to do it's totally optional and we are knitting the 2x2 rib
stitch so that's knitting two stitches and purling two stitches we are doing
that all the way around for six entire rows so the brim of our hat is in the
2x2 rib stitch pattern it's usually at this point that people think their hat
is going to be too small but trust me this is a great size for all adults this
hat does have a tendency to stretch and although the brim looks teeny tiny at
this point it will fit an adult sized head even one as large as mine we have
one increase row so here we are kfb knit front and back so you knit into that
first stitch but you don't take it off the needle instead you bring your right
needle around to the back and you knit into that to increase one stitch and
then you bring it around and off your needle and from one stitch now you have
two and then k15 that just means that you are knitting 15 stitches and
repeating this pattern all the way around so you're doing kfb four times
total we're taking it from 64 stitches up to 68 stitches on your needle rows 2
through 6 are super easy we are knitting all to just that stock in that stitch
that's so easy when knitting in the round knitting every single stitch now
at this point I like to change my yarn colors it's totally optional you can do
the same yarn color change it up whenever you'd like but if you'd like
the same color scheme as I have then this is time to change your yarn color
and personally I like to knit my old yarn and my new yarn together in that
first stitch to help it just stay a little bit more secure before I weave in
those ends at the end of the project we are beginning the bubble stitch pattern
so it starts with knitting two stitches looks look I have three that's because
of that change of yarn color and now it's time for the big k4b that's
knitting four below so we slip off one stitch and then we take the yarn letters
one two three four I know it's so scary the first few times you do this and then
it gets really fun and you put your right needle into that stitch from the
front and you take it to the back of those yarn ladders take your yarn wrap
it around and then you're just knitting through right there and you have knit
four below it's pretty exciting stuff and then you knit three stitches so
let's do this k4b together again well I don't know if
we're doing it together but I'm going to show it to you on this
video one more time on your left needle you're slipping one stitch off and then
those yarn you are intentionally those stitches over times with your
right needle put it through that little stitch bring it to the back wrap your
yarn around and then you're going to knit it through that stitch right there
and you've caught all of those yarn letters you have knit four below and
this is the technique that we're using to create those beautiful bubbly
textures throughout the entire Hat the last two stitches on this first bubble
row we are doing k4p again so we are dropping our stitch those four yarn
ladders putting our right needle through and to the back knitting it on through
and finishing up row one with just one knit stitch
alright so Row two and six is just knitting all so we are knitting every
single row we have that nice stockinette stitch and we can see our bubbles
forming now row seven we start with k4b so let's do that together we are
dropping those four yarn ladders putting our needle thrill and this one's a
little bit easier to keep track of because we start immediately with k4b
and we knit three stitches and that continues all the way around the entire
row seven we can stop to admire our bubbles so pretty and see how they're
starting to shape up and then we have rows eight through twelve which again
it's that stockinette stitch in the round all we have to do is knit and
continue rows one through twelve until your hat
the length that you desire now from the brim all the way up to the top at seven
inches is a good place to stop to do your decreases if you want that smaller
just be nice sized hat I personally am going to continue on and
do two more inches after this because I already have a beanie on the size but
this color I want to do a longer slouchy beanie and so that is 9 inches until I'm
ready for my decrease rows so the first row you're either doing Row 1 or 7 of
the bubble beanie pattern it depends on where you've stopped and I stopped on
row 12 so I'm starting with world 1 just one time to do that bubble beanie around
the bubble stitch around so I can get a little bit more texture near at the top
now the decreases are knitting two stitches together and then we are
knitting accordingly as we go around and you'll see that knitting two it's just
knitting two stitches together and following the pattern all the way until
you are ready to switch to double pointed needles once it starts getting
tight on that circular needle I switch to the double pointed needles and here's
how it looks once you have all the stitches on those three double pointed
needles and that forth needle is what you knit from if this is new to you I do
have a video on switching from circular to double pointed needles and continue
your decreases all the way around according to the pattern until only six
stitches remain well take our tapestry needle after cutting our yarn
and thread it through those six stitches right there removing the knitting
needles and will go all the way around take the yarn put it to the back of your
work and weave it on through cut your yarn and you're almost done you still
have some more yarn tails that you need to leave in and since we have it inside
out let's go ahead and look I really like the texture on the wrong side of
the work too so maybe we can call this a reversible hat and if you'd like you can
add a pom-pom I hope you have enjoyed seeing how the bumble beanie hat is knit
up thank you so much for joining me I have so many other great projects that I
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