How to Make Beaded Kippot
The stitches that you need to know to make beaded kippot are relatively simple. The only difficulty, as with making any kippah, there is no precise pattern to follow. Making kippot has a lot to do with getting a feel for the yarn and matching that up with the appropriate crochet hook that enables you to make stitches that are not too tight and not too loose. The only way to learn how to make beaded kippot is to try, and the more you make, the more you will improve and begin to create you own patterns and styles.
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Instructions
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Crochet the Kippah
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String on as many beads as you would like to use in the body of the project before you start.
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Chain four stitches and attach your last stich to the first stitch you made with a slip stitch to make a circle of stitches.
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Single crochet into the center of the circle until you have gone around the circle once, about five single crochet stitches.
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Single crochet twice into each stitch, going around in a circle pattern. Do this for the next round of the circle as well.
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Bring up one bead. Chain two, bring up a bead, then double crochet into the same single crochet space. Skip a single crochet stitch, then bring up a bead and double crochet into the next single crochet, bring up a bead, then double crochet again. Repeat this until you reach the end of the circle.
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Make two half double crochets into the space you made when you skipped the single crochet stitches, bring up a bead, and continue this pattern until you reach the end of the circle.
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Single crochet three rows and start the above pattern again to create beaded double crochet spaces.
Finishing Off the Kippah
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Crochet following the above pattern until the kippah is the size that you would like it to be.
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For the last row, bring up one bead then make a single crochet stitch. Skip a stitch, then bring up another bead and make a single crochet stitch to make a ring of beads around the outside of the kippah.
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Slip stitch into the last single crochet and knot to finish off the kippah.
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Tips & Warnings
You can add small strands of three or four beads that dangle down from the kippah in each single crochet space you skipped after the kippah is finished.
Play with the beads, adding them in different places and before and after (or even during) other stitches to create different effects.
Add more stitches if you feel that your kippah is getting too wavy and warped, and skip stitches if you feel that your kippah is too tight and cupped.
