How to Knit a Hat

My husband is always talking about using the right tool for the job. Honestly, sometimes I have no idea what in the world he's talking about, but there are some things where I can certainly see the old saying coming in handy. You wouldn't use a sponge to clean a toilet if there was a toilet brush nearby, right? It turns out that there exists in the world of knitting a tool that I just didn't know existed, and now that I've used one to knit a hat, I'll probably never do it any other way. I had always wanted to know how to knit a hat (baby hats and such), but until I discovered the joy of using a knitting loom I had never even attempted it.

My fingers aren't what they once were, and I can't knit for long periods of time anymore. Besides that I was never quite what you would call a fantastic knitter. I mostly stuck with dishrags. I've made a lot of dishrags. But every now and again I would get the hare-brained idea to do something a bit more complicated, clearly forgetting that more complicated things are, well, more complicated. One of two things would end up happening. I would either find the instructions (for something like a hat) and very wisely decide to never start, or I would get halfway through, realize I was creating nothing but a disaster and just pull it out. generally the yarn ended up becoming - another dishrag.

So you might have figured out that knitting in the round was completely out of my league, and that would have been absolutely correct, until a few months ago when I discovered the knitting loom. Once I learned how to knit a hat on a knitting loom a whole new world of potential projects opened up that would have been impossible before the loom. Needless to say, the needles are in the bottom drawer these days, but I haven't given up knitting at all. I'm knitting more than ever, and doing things I wouldn't have even attempted before.

Knitting looms make creating round objects a snap. So easy, in fact, that your very first knitting project on a loom could very well be a pair of socks of a hat, even if you've never knitted a stitch in your life. It helps a little bit if you have knitted with needles, because you'll understand all of the names for the stitches, but even a five year old can knit a hat on a loom, I know, I taught my granddaughter to do it in just a few minutes.

So when it comes to how to knit a hat, the very best way to do it is on a knitting loom. You can take a small loom and any hat pattern in the world and be turning out hats in just a few minutes. It's so simple I really can't imagine doing it any other way now. So now you know what the right tool for the hat job is, but please don't tell my husband that I used his saying, he'll get a little puffed up about it.