A very soft, thick hat.
Supplies:
Plastic Knifty Knitter Round Loom with 36 pegs
2 skeins Yarn Bee Cameo Bulky - color Plum Quartz from Hobby Lobby or buy online here.
Loom hook and needle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pclJ7gUvEAY - A video created by Isela Phillips showing Ewrap (twisted knit stitch) and purl stitches.
**Work with 2 strands of yarn held together as one. I found it helpful to hold two strands together and wind them into a loose ball, then knit on the loom. The yarn don’t seem to twist as badly as trying to loom with two separate skeins of yarn. Each loop you create will have two strands of yarn, but consider it one.
Cast on: Make a slip knot and put it on peg1, ewrap remaining 35 pegs or use your favorite cast on method. It doesn’t matter if you work clockwise or counterclockwise around the loom.
Row1 – ewrap pegs 1 and 2, but do not knit them off, we will knit them off during the next row. Purl peg 3. Repeat around the loom. Purling peg 3 will hold the ewraps on pegs 1 and 2. It’s like multi tasking on the loom.
Row2 - knit the bottom loops over the top loop on pegs 1 and 2. Ewrap pegs 1 and 2 and purl peg 3. Repeat around the loom. With this method you won’t need to label which pegs need purled, you won’t lose your place. Just keep saying Knit Knit Purl, Knit Knit Purl.
Repeat row 2 for a total of 40 rows.
Row40 - knit off all the ewrap pegs. You now have one loop of two strands of yarn on each peg
Bind off: Cut the yarn leaving a long tail. Use the gather method to remove the hat from the loom and weave in the tails of yarn.
** gather method - Thread the long tail onto the yarn needle. Starting on peg1 pull the yarn through each consecutive loop and remove loops from the loom. After all the loops are removed from the loom, pull the long tail tight, tie a knot and weave the tail inside the hat.
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