Hat with an elastic band 2 by 2 knitting needles: simplicity and elegance of style

2024 Author: Sierra Becker | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-26 03:47

When choosing a knitted hat model, I want it to be fashionable, interesting, fit well, knit easily and fit with outerwear. Such a versatile soldier. A knitted hat with an elastic band 2 by 2 ideally meets all the listed criteria. It is this pattern that is the most elastic and keeps its shape remarkably. Even a beginner needlewoman can handle knitting such a model, because it is enough to know how knit loops are knitted, purl and how to decrease loops.

The most fashionable hat

For several years now, not a single autumn-winter fashion show has been complete without a mandatory attribute - beanie hats.

There are many options, but the knitted beanie hat with 2 by 2 elastic is loved by all designers. These are head-hugging models and loose stocking hats. Laconic and with a variety of decorations: rhinestones, embroideries, pompoms. Beans are available for men, women and children. Such a hat can harmoniously fit into any look: sporty, casual and even classic. And most importantly, the beanie hat can be easily knitted by yourself.

Non-boring optionsbeanie

The seeming monotony of the beanie dilutes many details. A knitted hat with an elastic band 2 by 2 can have a lapel: single or double. In addition, the top of the hat is knitted in a variety of ways:

• classic crown, rounded in the shape of the head and adjacent to it;
• pointed crown in the form of a peak - made of denser threads that can hold its shape;



• soft stocking hat: any shape of the crown, the main body of the hat is elongated, while the threads are soft and elastic;
• a hat knitted in the shape of a rectangle without reduction, the loops on the crown are closed with one line - a kind of "ears" are obtained.

Materials for work

After you have decided on the style, you need to stock up on threads and the corresponding knitting needles.

From what yarn is it better to start knitting a hat with knitting needles with an elastic band 2 by 2? The choice depends on personal preferences and seasonality of the product. For a warm hat, you can take any woolen yarn: mohair, wool mixture and other mixtures of natural and synthetic fibers. The thickness of the thread is also any - the fewer meters in 100 grams, the more voluminous the hat will be, the better it will keep its shape. For a hat with a slightly elongated crown with a head circumference of 50-56 cm, 100-150 grams of yarn should be enough.

When knitting a hat with an elastic band 2 by 2, what number of knitting needles is better to work with? Their thickness should be half the number less than when knitting with the same threads of the frontsmooth surface (often the number of knitting needles for the front smooth surface is indicated on the yarn label). Circular knitting produces a seamless fabric, but there are such features:

• you need to constantly tighten the loops along the cable from knitting needle to knitting needle;
• it is inconvenient to follow the beginning of the row, especially when decreases begin to form the crown (row markers help).

In addition to straight needles, stocking needles are used for circular knitting, but their thickness varies in a small range.

Measurements and calculations

Whatever model you choose, you first need to determine the size of the hat. To do this, measure the girth of the head and the distance from the middle of the forehead to the beginning of the neck. This measurement is divided in half - it turns out the minimum height of the cap, which can be increased as desired.

The next step is knitting a sample 15 by 15 cm. For further work, the sample must be washed and dried in a horizontal position. To determine the number of loops and rows in a centimeter, you need to slightly stretch the knitted fabric. Another option: subtract 2-3 cm from the measurement of the circumference of the head and do not stretch the sample - as a result, a hat with an elastic band 2 by 2 with knitting needles will slightly fit the head.

The cap can be conditionally divided into three parts: the lapel, the body of the cap and the rounding for the crown. The straight part without reduction is equal to the height of the lapel and the desired length of the cap before rounding. The standard rounding is 5-8 cm and can be done in different ways.

• Cut at the beginning or end of segments by which the total number of cast-on stitches has been divided. Wedges can be from 4 to 10. The number of cast on stitches is a multiple of the number of wedges.
• Evenly reduce stitches without dividing into segments.

When working with straight knitting needles, in addition to the main loops, edge loops are also typed. When knitting a hat with an elastic band 2 by 2 with circular knitting needles, edging is not typed. Or one auxiliary loop is cast on to mask the hole at the point of transition to circular knitting.

Getting Started

The set of loops can be done in various ways:

• classic set gives hard inelastic edge;
• Italian cast on creates a stretch edge very similar to the factory;
• decorative cast-on edge, e.g. with a bulge or Bulgarian start.

Then the product is knitted according to the scheme: 2 facial, 2 purl. If the style provides for a lapel, at its completion, you can knit all the loops with facial ones - in this place a decorative scar is formed on the reverse side, which simultaneously fixes the lapel.

Create rounding

As mentioned above, there are two ways to decrease loops.

1. Equal contraction. In the first row of decreases, only purl loops participate: one is knitted from each pair. In the next front row, pairs of front loops are reduced. The last row of decreases is knitted as follows: purl and knit together or three together (l., i., l.) and one purl. All loops are removed on the needle and tightened. This method is more often used in beanie hats with an elongated crown.



2. Wedge division. When knittingof the last row of an even canvas, all loops are divided into groups according to the number of wedges of decrease. The more of them, the rounder the crown will turn out. You need to shorten the loops at the beginning or end of the wedge. Another pattern will be obtained by simultaneously reducing at the beginning and end of the wedge. This reduction option looks great on tight-fitting hats.

In each case, the calculation of cuts will be individual, depending on the knitting density, yarn thickness, model features.

Following actions: sew the edges of the hat with a mattress seam and hide the tips, if any, in a knitted fabric. When sewing a cap with a lapel, having reached the fold line, transfer the work to the wrong side so that the connecting seam is inside the lapel. Wash and dry the product on a round shape, if there is none, then horizontally.