Cobblestone Knit Beanie | Easy Knit Hat Tutorial + Free Pattern

For the pattern, we are going to be using some loops yarn that's what I've got here I am very cheap or I lost the ball band because and thread heathered. I'm very cheap and I made my swatch and then undid it so that's why we've got or even more than a swatch but I was trying out the stitch pattern and I lost the ball band unfortunately but this is what it looks like when you buy it new but I love this yarn it's super soft it has a ton of yardage this has 418 yards, and it's considered a lightweight, but I don't know, maybe the fuzzies on it are throwing me off. I would maybe consider this a DK, or you could get away with a DK if you're going to substitute. So always check gauge, especially if it's for a project that needs to fit a certain size. But I'm feeling maybe a little bit... Little bit DK-ish on this. Then for the actual needles, I'm using these Addi Turbos. I love Addi Turbos, but this is a 5mm, let's see if I can get that in focus, a 5mm 16 inch, so US 8. These are just fabulous. The cords never kink. It slides nice and easy. They're so smooth. I just love Addi Turbos. I'm going to link everything in the description just in case you've never tried them because I highly recommend them. And then, of course, because we're working in the round, you're going to want a stitch marker. My favorite are these little guys. I don't know why. Probably just because they're cute. So I'll link those guys as well. But I have a whole variety, so I usually try to get one that's kind of close to the size of my needle so that way it doesn't It doesn't flop everywhere, it kind of just glides with it. So get one kind of near the size of your needle and it makes it just a little bit easier when you're working. And then you're also going to need some scissors to cut your yarn and a yarn needle to weave that in. Okay so to begin we're going to start with a long tail cast on of 64 stitches. And you can use any cast on you'd like. We're going to be doing some ribbing, so if you like a ribbing type cast on, go ahead and use that. I'll link to different cast ons I have below, but in the meantime, a long tail works perfectly fine for most things, so we're going to stick with that. So go ahead and cast on 64 stitches and then we'll come back to start. Okay, I've got my 64 cast-on stitches, and now I'm going to join it to work in the round. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to first make sure all of my stitches are facing the same way. So I usually like to lay it down and then just turn all of the cast-on stitches facing the same way so I know I don't have anything twisted, and then we'll add our stitch marker so that we can begin round one. So for round one and rounds two through ten, we're going to be doing a ribbing. Edged. Ribbing, edged, ribbed, edged, ribbed, edged. So this is going to be a basic two-stitch ribbing. So what that means is we're going to knit two, purl two. So when we first join, we're going to try to make this stitch as tight as possible to bring the two edges together. Because if I just slide it off here, we're going to have a big old gap. So I want to bring it close together. Pull my tail so the stitch is as close as possible to my ending stitch, and then slide that off. So that's our knit one, then we're going to knit two, and then we're going to purl two. Again, if you're new to knitting, I have lots of beginner knitting tutorials that I will link. This is more of here's the instructions and go for it. This isn't so much teaching, so definitely check those out if you're not sure how to knit and purl yet, but we're gonna knit two, purl two again. We're gonna continue that all the way around and we'll come back after the first round just so we can make sure everyone understands what we're doing. Okay, here I am on the last four stitches, so two knits and two purls, and don't worry, see how this is kind of like spreading apart from the first stitch? As long as you kept it tight in the beginning, it will be fine. It will work itself out when you weave in everything. You'll see there's kind of a big gap, but that's normal. It will work itself out as long as you kept that first stitch tight. So we're going to slip our slip marker, stitch markers. And then we're going to start round two. So again, with this one, make the first one as tight as you can, get as close as possible before you slip it off. I'm stuck in the little hairs of this yarn. I really like this yarn, even though it's got the little hairs. It's very cute and soft. So I'm going to pull that as tight as I can and slip that off. So we're going to repeat what we did. Two knits, two purls. So we're knitting the knits and purling the purls. Keep track if you're not used to counting rounds or stitches. So that way... you know where you're at and what round you're on because we're going to do 10 of these so i'm going to leave you alone to work on all 10 of these so just mark off as you go so you don't lose your place if you're not used to it and we'll meet up at the end of round 10 to start the next portion of the beanie okay here i am on my last stitch of round 10 last purl i'm gonna slip my slip Marker, I keep calling it a slip marker, stitch marker, and then we're going to move on to rounds 11 and 12, which are the same. They are just going to be simple knit all the way around. So we're going to do two rounds of knitting before we begin our lace repeat. So go ahead and just knit those around and we'll come back at the end of round 12. Okay, here I am at the end of round 12, doing my last knit stitch. I'm ready for round 13. This is where the lace begins, the lace repeat, and the entire instruction is a repeat. So every stitch I'm going to do, we'll keep doing all the way around. So to begin the repeat, we're going to knit one, then we're going to yarn over, then we're going to do a decrease. We're going to do We're going to do a right leaning decrease, a knit two together, so we're going to skip the first. Stitch, go to the second one, go in both of them as if to knit, insert your needle, and then just knit those off, and you'll see it's a right leaning, it leans over to the right. Then we are going to knit three, three, then we're going to do a left leaning decrease, an SSK, so a slip slip knit. So we're going to slip the first stitch as if to knit, so we're just going to go in from the left and pull it off. to the other needle and not pull it completely off, then we're going to do the same thing with the second one, pull that off, then we're going to insert our left needle back into our stitches, and then from here you're just going to knit through the back loop so you can leave your right needle in there and just yarn over and pull through those two stitches and pull off, and that gives you a left leaning decrease. Then we're going to yarn over and start the process over again. Okay, so we're going to knit one, then we're going to yarn over and knit two together. So let's knit those two together sometimes. These are not very pointy tips, so sometimes you need to pull on your fabric to get through those stitches. If you don't have very pointy knitting needle tips, that's your tip. Then we're going to knit three, We're going to do our next decrease, the slip slip knit, so slip one, slip two, enter from the left, yarn over and knit those off, and then yarn over and repeat. So we're going to keep doing that all the way around, and then we'll come back for the next round of... our instructions. okay i'm coming back at the end of round 13 just to show you the very end stitches because this does end with a yarn over so when you are doing that very last stitch do not forget that yarn over or you'll be missing a stitch for round 14. so the very last where we're using yarn is going to be our slip slip knit so you should have two loops left to work into And then we need to yarn over before we start round 14. So you're just going to slide your stitch marker, leave that yarn over there, and begin round 14. So round 14 is similar to the last round, it's just we're going to move stitches around a little bit. So we're going to first start off with two knits when we start off, so make sure that you do not lose your yarn overs because you need to work into those. So we're working into that yarn over. Then we're going to do our yarn So we're going to yarn over and knit two together. And then instead of three knits in between our decreases, we're only doing one. So we're going to knit one, then we're going to slip, slip, knit, and get in there. I like the halo on this, but it does get a little bit caught sometimes with your needles. Then we're going to yarn over, and our last stitch will be a knit one. So it's going to be in that yarn over again. So we're knitting into yarn over. So that's the end of the repeat. So again, our repeat is knit two, one. Knit two and you should notice where you're knitting into the yarn overs of the round below so that if you miss seeing a yarn over you might have forgotten one in the last round. So that second knit is going to go into your yarn over. So let's knit two, yarn over, knit two together, Knit one. And we're going to slip slip knit. I'm going to yarn over. And then the second yarn over we're working into is the very last knit of the repeat. So we're going to keep on doing that same set of stitches all the way around. And then we'll come back for round 15. Okay, here I am at my last three stitches, which is a slip, slip, knit. Kind of four, because I'm going to yarn over and then I'm going to knit one. So we are ready for round 15. And this is the last actual lace. of the stitch repeat and then we're going to have three rounds of easy. So it's a pay attention and then not pay attention kind of pattern. So for round 15, we're going to start off with knit three. So you notice we've increased each time. So this time our yarn over is on that second knit stitch. Then we're going to yarn over and now we're going to do a new stitch. We're going to do a CDD, which is a center double decrease. So no more knit two together or slip slip knits. This one's going to reduce our stitch count by two, so it's going to create kind of a middle decrease. So the first thing we're going to do is slip two. So we're going to slip two over, then we're going to knit one, Then we're going to pass both of these over that knit one. So one and two. So we just got rid of two stitches and then we have just that one stitch and you can kind of see how it looks like a center decrease. It just looks like a little triangle almost. Then, because we did that yarn over on one side, we're going to do another yarn over on the other side to bring our stitch count back up, so those two create two extra stitches where we lost those two, and then we're going to knit two. That is the repeat for this section. Again, we're going to knit three, three, then we're going to do our center decrease, so we're going to slip two, we're going to knit the next one, then we're going to slip one, and slip two. To make up for those two, we have our one yarn over, we're going to do another yarn over, and then knit two to finish off our repeat. So we're going to keep on doing that all the way around, and then we're going to have some nice easy rounds after that. So I will see you in just a second. Okay, here I am at my last center double decrease. I have two more stitches left, and now I am done with round 15. So you can see this kind of V that is formed with lace. So for round 16 through 18, we are just knitting. That's it. We're just going to knit in the round for those three rounds. Make sure you're keeping track if you're not great at counting your rounds so that way you know when it's time to start our lace back up. So we're going to knit 16 through 18. So we're going to keep repeating 13 through 18 and it's really going to depend on how slouchy you want the beanie. So if you want it fitted, we're going to knit for about 10 stitches. And if you want it slouchy we're going to go for about 12 inches. So just keep on knitting those repeats until you get to where you want. We're going to end with a round 15 repeat because our knits are going to be our decreases. We're going to use 16 through 18 to do really fast decreasing on the crown to get it closed. So... Keep on knitting and I'll come back in a little bit of progress so you can see how the lace is working up. Okay I promised I would come back after I got some Distance here, so I'm on the third repeat of my lace and I just wanted to give you kind of a view of what it looks like a little bit more worked up so that you can see if yours is matching. So as you're working you'll notice that you have kind of the center Pieces that come up and that's kind of your guide to make sure you're staying on track So if you get off on your stitches if you forget a yarn over somewhere, you're gonna see that it's going strange ways. So always when you're working these laces kind of look at what you're doing below Like for example, I just did the knit five and the middle knit three stitch is right in this center line here So it's gonna always Be right in that center and then the last one is being worked in a yarn over and then when I do my center double decrease you'll see that there's three You know full stitches of stitch work that I'm working into so if I'm working into a yarn over I know I've gone off track somewhere because I probably forgot a yarn over so Keep those in mind as you're working and just pay attention to where you're working into below and that will help guide you if you notice that you're not working three Dense stitches for the center double decrease. Stop, work backwards, start counting where you might have gotten off. So keep on going. We'll come back when it's time to decrease the crown and I'll see you in a little bit. Okay I've got my beanie to the length that I wanted so it can be a little slouchy. So it's about 11 inches long when we get it flat. So now I'm going to do my decreasing. last stitch here so I didn't lose my stitch marker so for my decreasing for the next two rounds I am going to knit two together so we finish with a round 15 repeat and that's the last bit of the lace so we're gonna do just you know normal stitches to close it up so for the next two rounds we're going to decrease and we're going to do that by doing knit two togethers over and over so try not to make them too tight otherwise this next round after this gets a little difficult to work into so with this you are just going to knit two together on every two stitches that you come to so sometimes it can be a little Uh, finicky with the yarn overs and such, but just take your time, give yourself some slack when you're taking it off to give some room for your next round, and we're going to just do those two rounds, and then we'll come back and close up the hole. So go ahead and do your two rounds of knit two together, and we'll see you in just a minute. Okay, I just finished all of my decreasing. So now I'm going to close off the hole. So I'm going to do a tail long enough for sewing and weaving in. Find a good one that I want to use. Okay, so we are going to start from where we left off. So here was my last stitch. I'm going to go through the new stitches. Just one off as I go and I should have 16 left. You could do one more round of knit two together if you want to, but this closes just fine. I like the hooked needles like this because it's easy to kind of hook it and pull. Okay and then I'm going to pull that closed. So you can see the 16 made it like so it's a little bit roughly almost at the very top which I like better than just like a straight flat when it's a slouchy beanie like that. So I will go through it. I'll probably go around the circle one more time and then weave everything in. But go ahead and weave in your ends and then we'll come back real quick at the end. Okay here is the finished beanie all woven in. So this will be a nice slouchy beanie. You can always cut it off at the 9 inch mark to make it more fitted, whatever you choose. So be sure to tag me if you make one. I'd love to see it. All of my handles are below but I'm in danger of making crochet ever after and thank you for watching.