Circular Knitting: Hats With Earflaps

Video Transcript

"A variation of the hat we just made is the hat with earflaps, which has become a favorite in my household. For the earflap hat, you start out by knitting the earflaps. This is actually knit separate, which will do, and you knit both earflaps, and then you pickup and cast on your stitches around the circumference of the hat. This hat was knit in stripes, so you have changing colors, which is another technique, and then, the rest of it, from the cast on, up through the crown and the shaping is all the same things you would do on any hat. You know, there's no brim because we've got the earflaps, but still you would knit to your desired length to the crown, and then you would do your decreases, and this is a much bulkier yarn than we used before, but you could see there are the decrease lines and the diagonal that we had before, and it runs up into the top, and for this hat we made a pompom, and then we made eye cords, for ties, which is another thing you can learn, which is useful for making bags, wraps and things like that. So, you have two eye cords, and then there's an optional crochet trim that we did around the edge."