Double knit hats

Pillies wrote

on Jan 9, 2009 9:58 AM

 I knit wool hats for the homeless here in the San Francisco Bay area.

I've been thinking that double knit might be warmer than a single layer.

Can anyone recommend a simple double-knit hat pattern?  I don't do cables or anything fancy.  I want quick and easy for me---warm for them.

Thanks!  Jennelle

weeone wrote

on Jan 9, 2009 3:37 PM

Hi Jennelle:

How about using a provisional cast-on and finish the hat as desired, then pick up the live stitches with another color (of the same gauge) and knit another hat from the other end.  Tuck one hat inside another, and now you've got a reversible (and can even be two toned if you flip the edge) hat with double layers. 

ding

Jeannette Dawes wrote

on Jan 10, 2009 5:06 PM

Hi, I have made double knit hats for years.  You cast on an even number of stitches.  For small 100, then go up by tens for larger sizes.  I use redheart as it is inexpensive, washes and dries well and survives KIDS.  It takes 1 skein, Size 10 - 10.5 or 11 circular needles - large enough to hold the stitches and allow you to knit comfortably.  

Make pom-pom (optional)  I make it first the knit to the end of a skein.  (2.5 inch diameter.)

Cast on stitches - join

Begin Knit one , *bring yarn forward as if to pearl - slip the stitch, take yarn to back and knit the next stitch.  Continue from *  for as many rounds as you want.  I usually make the hats 8 to 10  inches before I begin to form the crown.    I do not mark the starting point.  It is a given as the tale of the yarn is there from cast on.

Decreasing.  K 2 together, then I knit a row, K 2 together, Knit a row if you can then K. 2 together and gather with yarn to close opening.  End off, attach pompom and finish starting yarn by knotting on beginning stitches and burying it in between the layers of the hat.

Warning it takes several rows to know if the double knit is working.  If at anytime you cannot separate the front from the back, you have knitted a stitch from the inside and the knitting will begin to bunch.  

Knitting goes quickly.  Kids in Ohio have worn them for YEARS.

Jeannette

Jeannette Dawes wrote

on Jan 10, 2009 5:06 PM

Hi, I have made double knit hats for years.  You cast on an even number of stitches.  For small 100, then go up by tens for larger sizes.  I use redheart as it is inexpensive, washes and dries well and survives KIDS.  It takes 1 skein, Size 10 - 10.5 or 11 circular needles - large enough to hold the stitches and allow you to knit comfortably.  

Make pom-pom (optional)  I make it first the knit to the end of a skein.  (2.5 inch diameter.)

Cast on stitches - join

Begin Knit one , *bring yarn forward as if to pearl - slip the stitch, take yarn to back and knit the next stitch.  Continue from *  for as many rounds as you want.  I usually make the hats 8 to 10  inches before I begin to form the crown.    I do not mark the starting point.  It is a given as the tale of the yarn is there from cast on.

Decreasing.  K 2 together, then I knit a row, K 2 together, Knit a row if you can then K. 2 together and gather with yarn to close opening.  End off, attach pompom and finish starting yarn by knotting on beginning stitches and burying it in between the layers of the hat.

Warning it takes several rows to know if the double knit is working.  If at anytime you cannot separate the front from the back, you have knitted a stitch from the inside and the knitting will begin to bunch.  

Knitting goes quickly.  Kids in Ohio have worn them for YEARS.

Jeannette

pwyarnlady wrote

on Jan 17, 2009 11:39 AM

 Jeannette,

You said you knit one, bring yarn forward, slip the stitch, take yarn back and knit next stitch.  You never work the stitch that you slipped?   I'd love to learn this and got the pattern out that your wrote to do it, but when I read it again, that slipped stitch puzzled me.  I'm new to double knitting!

Peggy

sallykg@roadrunner.com wrote

on Jun 24, 2009 8:53 AM

I double my hats by knitting the original as planned, then using a complimentary color reverse the pattern and keep on going.  The top of the hat fits neatly inside the 1st one and I don't have to go looking for any fancy patterns and the cuff is great looking with the extra color, and it is reversible! 

Sally K.