Author: Knitting Apprentice

This is a quick and easy knit using bulky yarn and brioche technique which I can say that this is a very much likely can be renamed as the new gift-knit project for your loved ones during holidays. Bulky yarn needs just a couple of handful of stitches to be cast on and a few rounds to make to complete this simple yet classic brioche beanie.

One technique that has been adapted in this beanie is a quick crown shaping. However, for some hats with this kind of decrease showed creases on top of the hat. To hide these creases, pompom is added. This hat has been designed to stand alone, without any pompom. But knitters may add pompom using the extra yarn. This hat uses less than one skein of bulky hat (just approximately 94 meters).

You can download the pattern absolutely free here! 

As promised, here are the detailed techniques and tweaks I used to finish this hat easy and breezy. No sweat. Promise!
1. Cast on. I used 100 cm long circular needle to cast on my stitches. But you other circular needle longer than 20 cm. I folded it into two whereby I hold the two needle tips together. The resulting size now is 12mm (combining two 6mm needle together). DPNs can be used also by holding to DPNs together.
2. Join in the round. The very reason that cast on needle should be double is because the resulting circumference by the initial cast on stitches is too small to knit in the round. Also, to ease the tension on the brim. Align work as shown in the picture and knit continue knitting the pattern.
3. Hat. You can finish the hat section in an hour! You’ll love one-color brioche because it is very easy to knit. Pattern is written in such a way that I am learning brioche for the first time. I mastered brioche by reading and re-reading brioche books and I would like to share it how I learned.
4. Crown Shaping. Staying true with the name of this hat, the crown shaping is very quick and easy. Decrease has been evenly spread out in four rounds to loosen up the tension. Thus, creating a rounded crown. Brk2tog means you bark a brp from the previous line and a brk (a knit stitch with a yarn over). Simply bark three loops hanging next to each other. In the end of this round, you’ll see sets of two adjacent knit stitches. These two stitches will share one yarn over in the brp round (notation would be sl2yo), and, yes, these two will a brk2tog in the next brk round. Crown shaping is about one inch.

 

 

Adding few more rows will result into a watch cap.
There you go, quick and easy bulky brioche hat. Happy knitting!

 

 

Knitting exercises my brain cells every day. Creating new designs and thinking out of the box construction pattern have been part of my daily routine since the day I started knitting almost one and a half years ago. I can still remember so vividly that right after I finished the first beanie, I started reading about brioche. Watching videos online and bugging a friend of mine explores brioche helped me a lot.

Yes, I was that ambitious! Really. Ambitious. For a beginner!

Having through that stage I would like to help beginners overcome that most dreaded brioche: the fear of jumping into something unimaginable. Believe me, it’s so easy like counting one to three! I designed handful of brioche beanies but as a starter, here is the hat for you. No decrease and increase done in the brioche part. You can do this in one sitting! Pattern is detailed. Instructions are included where to place your yarn after each round. No need to cut each yarn.

This is a reversible beanie. Just like the Endpoint hat, I won’t reveal the other side. I assure you, the reverse side is not the same as the main side. You’ll be surprised.

NB: The decrease rounds were designed to counter act the brioche. Look, it’s animated, too!

Download pattern at ravelry. 

Finally, Endpoint hat is here!

Free to download until the 19th of March. 
No promo code needed! Just click here to download!

Endpoint is a reversible hat that uses a cable needle but not in a traditional way. The reverse side is not shown in any pictures available. It is up for you to find out! This hat is constructed bottom up and designed to have a very different interesting side.

The gauge for the pattern is also included in the written pattern.

Variegated yarn is highly recommended if you love playing with colors!

Additional interesting notes: written pattern includes a tip to have smooth cast on and, weave in ends vertically through the knit row.

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Additional notes from the pattern: There are two gauge obtained with two different needles. Using US 4 (3.5mm) – using the Endpoint pattern, 28 stitches x 32 rows (10cm x 10cm). Using US 6 (4mm) – using stockinette stitch, 22 stitches x 30 rows (10cm x 10cm).