Circular Knitting: Hat Brims

Video Transcript

"Before we get started knitting the brim, I'm just going to talk about different brims that can be on the bottom of your hat. So, you can have a knit one, perl one. Again, we do these because they're more elastic. So, this is knit one, perl one, and I'm going to show you how to do that. Then, there can be knit two, perl two which these are the same number of stitches cast on. You can see that's even tighter than the first. So, if you stretch that out, you see it's knit two, perl two, knit two, perl two, but when it lies flat, it's tighter than that, and then this is a rolled rim. So, this is where I knit a row, perl a row which is stockinette and stockinette left to its own devices is just going to curl up like that. So, with a hat, you can do a rolled rim where you just keep knitting and knitting. You can do knit two, perl two. You can do knit one, perl one. You can do any combination you like. So, with the ribbing, what you're going to do; is you're going to knit one stitch, then you have to bring your yarn in front and perl a stitch and then your yarn goes in back. Knit a stitch, yarn goes in front, perl a stitch and if I kept on that way, you can see the very beginnings of it; knit perl, knit perl. The knit if flat and the perl has a little bump on it like it's wearing a scarf. So, that would end up growing up to be like this. If I were to do knit two, perl two, it would be knit two and it's always a little bit tight on this first row easing those stitches in, and then it would be perl two, and again, knit two and the rib won't start to pull together for a few rows, and you would continue and do that across the row. Okay, but we're not going to do all of these different rib treatments on one hat. I just wanted to give an example. So, here you can see, you've got two knit stitches, two flat stitches next to each other. Then, two perls; you see that bump against the needle; two knits, two perls and after a few rows, that would become like this-this version right here."