How to Make a Knitted Bill for a Hat Pattern
If you're tired of knitting beanie hats and you want to try something a little different, learn how to knit hat bills. Knitted bills add character to plain beanies, and they're an essential element in most newsboy-style caps. Knitted bills don't just serve an aesthetic purpose; they also protect your eyes from the sun's damaging rays. You only need a few more minutes of knitting time a little more yarn to add a bill to any knitted hat.
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Instructions
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Cast on 3 stitches with the yarn and needles you used to knit your hat.
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Knit the first stitch in row 1, make one purlwise (pick up the bar of yarn between the stitch you just knit and the next stitch on the left-hand needle and drape it over the left-hand needle. Purl through the front of the loop to create a new stitch), knit 1, make 1 purlwise, knit 1.
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Purl 1, knit 1 across row 2 and every even numbered row, ending with a purl stitch.
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Work row 3 in the following fashion: knit 1, purl 1, make one purlwise, knit 1, make 1 purlwise, purl 1, knit 1.
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Purl 1, knit 2 twice and knit the last stitch in row 4.
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Continue knitting in the established pattern, working a make 1 increase on either side of the center stitch on odd-numbered rows until your knitting is twice as wide as you want your hat bill to be.
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Knit without increasing until the hat bill measures 5 inches from the cast-on edge, ending with an even-numbered row.
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Decrease in the next odd-numbered row; purl 2 stitches together on either side of the row's center stitch.
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Continue knitting even-numbered rows in the manner as before and work decreases on either side of the center stitch on all odd-numbered rows.
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Bind off when 3 stitches remain.
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Fold your knitted piece in half along the row of stitches sitting across the middle to make the hat bill.
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Thread a yarn needle with some of the yarn you used to knit your hat and sew the raw edges of the bill to the brim of your hat using a whip stitch (sewing over and under the edge of the hat and brim fabric).
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References
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