20 Spring 2013 • Craft Industry today

Do-It-Yourselfby Lindsay Obermeyer

Baby Knit CapT

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Gather your supplies� 1 Ball of Tweed Stripes by Lion Brand Yarn� 1 Martha Stewart Crafts Knit and Weave Loom Kit� 1 Clover Large Pom-Pom Maker� 1 Pair of Scissors� 1 Tape Measure

Assemble the loomSnap together the two semicircular pieces. Place a smallblue peg in 55 of the holes, and one small gray peg in thefinal hole. The gray peg is your start and stop point for eachround. (Note: You may also use an infant-sized knittingloom with pegs set for worsted weight yarn. If you have abulky loom, carry two strands of Tweed Stripes rather thanjust one.)

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This cute baby’s cap is a great beginner’s project and a wonderfulitem to donate to your local children’s hospital or domestic abuseshelter. If you devote just eight minutes to it a day, you could knitone in under two weeks! But be warned – knitting is addictive. Youwon’t be able to stop with just one hat!

Why not create a charity club at your store? Display your cus-tomers’ donations to spur on more customer donations.

Cast onCreate a slipknot with a 6- to 8-inch tail. Place the slip-knot over the gray peg and tighten it. Wrap the yarn in acounterclockwise direction around each blue peg start-ing to the left (clockwise) of the gray one. Continue inthis fashion until you are back to the gray peg. Continuewrapping around each peg until you have two wraps perpeg. Use the knitting tool to lift the bottom wrap up andover the top wrap and off the peg. Do this until just onewrap/ stitch remains per peg.

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Lindsay Obermeyer is an artist and writer who shares her joyfor crafts through easy-to- follow patterns with creativetwists. Her work has been featured in numerous books andmagazines, as well as on radio and television programsincluding a pilot for PBS. Since 2004, her community artendeavor The Red Thread Project has involved thousands ofcrafters from around the world, and resulted in the donationof more than 7,000 handmade and embellished hats to charity. Lindsay is teaming up with Charity Wings Art Centerto bring The Red Thread Project to CHA in winter 2014. Tolearn more about the project, go to theredthreadproject.comor charitywings.org. Lindsay’s website is lbostudio.com, oryou may e-mail her directly at lindsay@lbostudio.com.

Step 4Knit 9 roundsTo knit, you will wrap another round just like you didfor the cast-on. Once you have two wraps on eachpeg, proceed to lift the bottom one up and over thetop one. This makes one round of knitting. Continueuntil you have completed 9 rounds.

Step 5Work a garter ridgeTo create a garter ridge, you will work one round ofpurling, a second round of knitting and the finalround of purling. To create a purl stitch, bring youryarn to the front of the peg and below the stitch on it.Bring your knitting tool through the stitch on the pegto catch the working yarn. Pull the yarn through thestitch and then lift the stitch off of the peg. Place theloop on your knitting tool onto the peg. This makesone purl stitch. Continue with this process for eachpeg until you have completed a round.

Step 6Repeat knit and garter ridge roundsWork 6 rounds of knitting followed by one garterridge twice. After the final garter ridge (you shouldhave a total of three ridges), work 10 rounds of knit-ting. The hat should measure 7.5 inches from thecast-on edge. Don’t worry about the bottom curling,it will make an attractive and comfortable hat brim.

Step 7Cast offAfter the final round of knitting,cut the yarn leaving a 16-inch tail.Thread the tail through the tapestryneedle included in the kit. Slidethe needle through the stitch fromthe top of the peg, working in thesame direction you knitted (clock-wise). Pull the tail through thestitch. Lift the stitch off of the peg. Continue with thisprocedure until all the stitches are off of the loop andsafely on the tail of the yarn. Pull the tail until the topcloses up. Weave the tail through several stitches andto the interior of the hat. Weave the tail through afew more stitches and cut away the remainder of thetail. Weave in the tail from the beginning.

Step 8Make pom-pom and attach to hatMake a pom-pom using the pom-pom maker. Use thepom-pom tails to sew the pom-pom to the hat.

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