Meet Jack and Jill, my two newest earflap hats!
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I knit Jack on size 8 circular needles with Vanna's Choice yarn in Woods Print and Jill was also knit on size 8 circular needles, but using Bernat Satin in Luxury Ombre.
The neat thing about this particular hat is that the earflaps are knitted into the hat, instead of the knitting the hat around the earflaps.
Usually, when I make an earflap hat, I'll knit the earflaps first and then cast, say eight stitches, onto my circular needle, add one earflap, cast on 18 stitches, add the second earflap, cast on eight more stitches and then join in the round and use the next row to connect the five sections. It works very well to do it that way, but it also means you'll be sewing in a lot of ends.
With this hat, I used a different technique that I learned in one of my knitting books. This time, I cast all 64 stitches onto my circular needle. Then, I joined and started knitting. After knitting eight stitches, I used the three-needle bind off technique to join one of the earflaps to the hat. I put the earflap on the outside of the seam, but you could also do it so that your earflap was on the inside (that would work especially well if you wanted to make your brim fold over). Then after knitting the appropriate number of stitches I joined the second earflap in the same way.
I don't know if it was necessary, but to make it flat on the inside of the hat, I used the tail that was left over from knitting the earflap to sew the inside of the brim to the inside of the earflap. That way the join between the hat and the earflap looks seamless.
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| Woods Print |
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| Luxury Ombre |
The neat thing about this particular hat is that the earflaps are knitted into the hat, instead of the knitting the hat around the earflaps.
Usually, when I make an earflap hat, I'll knit the earflaps first and then cast, say eight stitches, onto my circular needle, add one earflap, cast on 18 stitches, add the second earflap, cast on eight more stitches and then join in the round and use the next row to connect the five sections. It works very well to do it that way, but it also means you'll be sewing in a lot of ends.
I don't know if it was necessary, but to make it flat on the inside of the hat, I used the tail that was left over from knitting the earflap to sew the inside of the brim to the inside of the earflap. That way the join between the hat and the earflap looks seamless.
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