For this tutorial you will need your selected yarn I'm using stylecraft
special chunky DK I shall leave the link in the description box you'll also need
a pair of scissors a darning needle a crochet hook now because this is a
chunky DK I'm using an 8 millimeter hook this is actually two sizes larger than
what the label recommends just because I want it to be a bigger stitch and you
can obviously use as many different colours as you want in your project you
want to begin by making your slip knot and you can do this whichever way you
prefer now your first chain might vary from person to person but this chain is
actually going to be however deep you want your hat to be all your beanie to
be so if you measure sort of from your forehead to the top of your head
that's how long it's going to be I would always add a little bit extra if you
want to turn over your hat at the bottom so for me I am going to start off by
chaining 27 and you do that by just grabbing the yarn and pulling it through
don't make this first chain too tight because you've obviously got to work
back over the chain in order to add your stitches so pause the video and work
your chain as I say I'm doing 27 and I shall meet you back to show you what to
do for the next row so I've now done my chain of 27 and what I'm going to do now
is do a half treble crochet into the third chain from the hook so not the one
on the hook not this one not the next but the third one along so this is a UK
term in the US this would be a half double crochet so you want to yarn over
and insert your hook into that third chain grab your yarn pull it through and
then grab your yarn and pull it through all three loops on the hook so your just
missing a stage it just makes that stitch bigger than a double but
smaller than a treble and you're just going to repeat that all the way along
into every single chain that you made for your foundation chain so pulling all
the way through if you want to pause the video and work your way all the way
along and I shall meet you back for your next row so once you've gone all the way
along your chain you just want to count your stitches now because I chained 27 I
actually have 25 stitches plus my original turning chain so I have 26 in
total and that's an important number to remember for your project whichever
number you have because each row is going to consist of that many stitches
now it's really easy and from now on all you have to do is chain two and turn
your work and you're going to work your way back all the way along that row but
instead of going through both the loops on the hook you're only going to work
into the back loop and that's what creates this ridged effect to your work
so if you turn your work towards you you'll see these little V's on the top
and all you want to do is yarn over insert your hook into the back loop yarn
over pull through and then yarn over pull through all three loops on the hook
and then again into your next one and again into your next one
and you just want to continue in this way all the way along to the very end so
pause the video and I shall meet you back at the end of this row so now
you're at the end you want to just count your stitches just to make sure you're
on the right track and you're going to chain two again and turn and then simply
do exactly the same thing so you're working into the back loop of every
stitch doing a half treble crochet so exactly the same thing all the way along
and this is what each and every row consists of from now on okay so you're
actually building your beanie and upward so you're going to end up with a long
piece I'm going to do about thirty seven rows of these but you want to make it
long enough so it can wrap around your head or whoever's head you're making it
for obviously that's going to be different for every person and it will
also be different depending on the hook size and which yarn you use as well so
work as many rows as you need to wrap around the head of the person you're
making the hat for pause the video and meet me back when you're done okay so
when you're done you should end up with a long piece big enough to go around
your head and each side of the work is going to give a slightly different feel
so this side feels like you've got more ridges going down the end and then this
one feels like and it's got deeper even ridges so decide which side you prefer
best and which one you want to have on the outside I want this side to be on
the outside so I'm actually going to pull in both sides so that we're putting
the right sides together so all I want you to do now is grab a darning needle
I'm actually I've actually left a really long end
here so I've inserted my darning needle and what you're going to do is simply
sew one edge to the other making sure that you're keeping it nice and neat and
all you need to do is just hook your thread through one side and then come
back to the other and then just sew it up obviously the more stitches you pop
in there the most more secure it's going to be so go ahead and do that and I'll
meet you back in a moment so now you've done that your seam should be
fairly invisible it should just blend right into the work mine is just along
here I've taken another piece of yarn which is fairly long and I've attached
it to the end just here so it doesn't matter either end is absolutely fine and
what you're going to do with this is just weave your needle in and out the
top of your work so you might want to think about weaving it in and out each
of your ridges and so we've got one row here and a row here and doing that
will make it nice and even and what you'll find is if you pull on
your work like this it actually bunches it all up together so that's what we're
aiming to do this is going to be the top of the hat so we're bunching it all up
together so if you want to work your way all the way round and then I'll meet
you back once you've worked back to the beginning and then I shall show
you what to do next I've now gone all the way around and I'm
back to the beginning so what I'm going to do is I'm just going to pull really
tight on this yarn and I'm simply going to weave in my needle in and out from
side to side not going too deeply but just weaving that so that we're
strengthening the top of the hat the beanie should I say and also from the
other side because we do want to keep it round and then once you feel that that's
secure you can go ahead and pop in a knot just to tie it off and then weave
in your ends and snip it off and then what you want to do is you want to turn
it the right way out and you'll find that makes the top of
your hat now you can actually add a pom-pom if you want to on the top of
there it makes it look quite cool and if I flatten this out you can either turn
this up and just tack with some yarn to keep that up like this or if you wanted
to you can actually add a row of double crochet along this edge so to do that
all you would want to do is take your yarn and your hook and then just pop it
into one of these stitches let's tie it on and then you just want to double
crochet all the way around you could just do one row of this two rows it's
totally up to you I find that it just makes it look a little bit neater and
what I do is I kind of just look for each stitch and do one in each stitch
all the way around tada there you go guys that is the beanie I've turned mine
up and tacked it and at the sides or like in four I know they're not corners
but front and back and side and side and I've
also added a little pom-pom now I make my pom-poms really weird I don't use the
pom-pom makers and I don't use cardboard I actually use my fingers and so I
didn't do the tutorial how to do that because it kind of looks a bit awkward
on camera but I will leave I'll find a pom-pom tutorial now leave a link to one
in the description box I really hope you've enjoyed this
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