How To Knit A Newborn Hat With Straight Needles

Chances are good that you have straight needles in a variety of sizes just waiting to be put to use.

How to knit a newborn hat with straight needles. The hat is knit flat on straight needles and then seamed together with mattress stitch for an invisible join. Most often knit hat patterns are what beginners venture into after mastering the simple stitches. For knitters who are not yet comfortable knitting in the round knitting a hat with straight needles is a perfect option.

Basic Baby Set. Baby Helmet with matching bootees. A hat and scarf go together so well as a packaged deal so it seems like a logical next step from scarves.

Working up in just a few hours the Easy Knit Hat here at BHooked is perfect for your first knitting project. Never made a babys hat before. Knit 1 purl 1 eleven times.

Knit 1 purl 1 four times. Touch device users can explore by touch or with swipe gestures. This simple alternative to working with either double-pointed or circular needles entails knitting the hat flat and then seaming it.

Then start again with knit. Other techniques like decreasing and seaming will be covered in the video tutorial below. Best of all this method is easily customized to whichever size is.

The wrapped stitches look more complicated than they are. Straight needle knitting patterns are a mainstay of the knitting world. Im not a fan of dpn or straight needles.