How to Loom Knit a Cupcake Hat

Knitting looms consist of rings with pegs. The pegs are used to make loops that are stitched or knitted together with a hooked loom stitch tool. A cupcake hat is a cute hat that has a layer of dark color yarn to represent the cake bottom, a layer of light color yarn to represent frosting and a small red ball on top to represent the cherry. Make your own loom knit cupcake with a round loom and two different colors of yarn.

Things You'll Need

• Round knitting loom
• 2 brown yarn skeins
• 2 white yarn skeins
• Red yarn
• Yarn needle

Instructions

1. Take the tail ends of the two brown yarn skeins and line them up. Wrap the two strands together around your finger, 3 inches in from the ends, to make a loop. Slide the loop off. Pick up the long ends of the two strands and pull them through the loop. Pull on the ends of the string to make a slip knot.

2. Slide the loop of the two-stranded slip knot over the first peg of the loom. Begin wrapping the two strands of brown yarn around the pegs of the loom, working in a clockwise direction. Wrap the two strands at the same time around the second peg, in a counter-clockwise direction to make an "e" shape. Continue wrapping the two strands of yarn around the loom until all the pegs have loops on them and you are back at the starting point. Wrap all the pegs in the same manner once more so there is a total of two double stranded loops on each peg.

3. Use the knitting loom tool to hook the bottom double-stranded loop up over the top double-stranded loop and off the pegs. Do this for all of the pegs to create your first row of stitches.

4. Move the two long yarn ends to the front of the first peg (on the outside of the loom, not the inside). Insert the hook of the knitting tool from the bottom up into the double stranded loop on the peg. Grab the two long yarn strands with the hook of the tool and pull them through the double stranded loop on the peg to make another double stranded loop. Slide the first double-stranded loop off the peg and slip the new double-stranded loop onto the peg. This is called the knit stitch. Knit stitch the next peg the same way.

5. Pass the two strands of working yarn in front of the third peg. Slide the double-stranded loop up on the peg so that the two working strands can fit underneath it. Insert the hook of the knitting tool into the double stranded loop on the peg from the top. Grab onto the two strands of working yarn and pull them up through the double stranded loop on the peg to make a new double-stranded loop. Slide the old double-stranded loop off the peg and the new double-stranded loop onto the peg to finish making a purl stitch. Make a purl stitch on the next peg in the same manner.

6. Alternate between making knit stitches on two pegs and purl stitches on two pegs as you work your way around the loom. Knit 14 rows of the alternating stitches in total to make the bottom of the cupcake hat. Cut the two working strands, leaving 2 inches on the tail ends.

7. Take the two white yarn strands, align the tail ends and tie them together into a slip knot. Add the top two yarn strands to the pegs and make a knit stitch as before to attach the top color to the bottom color. Knit three rows of knit stitch with the two white strands of yarn.

8. Take the last row of stitches you just knitted with the white yarn and place the double-stranded yarn loops of the stitches back onto their corresponding pegs. Stitch together the bottom loops on the pegs with the top loops of the previously stitched yarn row. Pull all the white yarn loops off the pegs. Wrap the pegs with two strands of white yarn. Knit three rows of two strands of white yarn. Pull up the first row of white yarn stitches you knitted (the bottom row of white yarn stitches) from the center of the loom onto the pegs with one two-stranded stitch per peg. Knit the previously knitted row of stitches to the double-stranded loops on the pegs to make a ridge for the "icing" of the cupcake hat.

9. Knit a row of purl stitches, then a row of knit stitches, going all the way around the loom for each row. Keep alternating between a row of purl stitches and a row of knit stitches until the hat is the desired size. Cut the two working strands of white yarn to 15 inches in length.

10. Insert the white tail ends into a yarn needle. Insert the yarn needle into the loops on the first peg, from the top. Pull the needle and thread through, then lift the stitch off the peg. Remove all the other stitches from the loom in this manner, using the needle and thread to hold them together. Pull the thread tight to make the top of the hat come together and tie it into a knot. Pull the yarn tails through to the interior of the hat and pass them through several stitches to secure them. Trim the remaining yarn.

11. Make the "cherry" of the cupcake hat. Wrap the red yarn in double strands onto the first five pegs of the loom. Purl the first row of stitches. Knit the second row of stitches. Keep alternating between a purl stitch row and a knit stitch row until you have made six rows of stitches. Trim the working ends of the yarn, insert them into the yarn needle and remove the stitches with the yarn as before. Sew the "cherry" to the top of the hat by working the yarn through the top stitches of the hat into the interior of the hat. Tie the yarn tails into a knot and trim the excess yarn.