New Little Hat for a New Little Person!

My sister's friend just had a new baby, and what could be a better gift for a new little lady than a sassy pink and ivory hat?! That's what I was thinking last night, so I set to work with my Knifty Knitter loom kit and made a precious miniature hat for the newbie. I love making hats on these looms - it is incredibly fast, and the end product looks f'ing awesome!

To make this hat you will need:

• Caron Simply Soft in Plum Wine (less than 1/4 of a skein)
  
• Red Heart Soft Yarn in Off-White (less than 1/4 of a skein)
• Infant-sized Knifty Knitter Loom - Blue loom
• Yarn needle
• Loom hook tool
• Scissors
  

Make a Lil Hat:

1. Starting at the peg perpendicular to the others on the side of the loom, loop both color yarns around the peg to the right of the perpendicular peg and the rest of the pegs by creating a cursive e.
   
2. Repeat so that you have two set of loops on each peg (four pieces of yarn will be on each peg because of the double running color)
   
3. Using the hook tool, pull the bottom of the two rows up and off the peg, so that there is only one set of loops on the pegs.
4. Continue to loop yarn with cursive e pattern and pull over the bottom of the two rows.
   
5. Create brim by folding the first row you created up back onto the pegs - Use the hook tool to pull the bottom of the two rows up and off the peg - Since this hat is for an infant, it has a short rim of only 2 centimeters.
   
6. Continue making the hat as before until it is tall enough to fit the future owner.
7. Once a good height is reached, cut yarn off.
8. From one skein, loop a color (I used the pink) through the eye of the needle and pull off the final e loops from the loom with the needle.
9. Once all loops are off, remove needle from yarn and pull the loops closed. This creates the closed top of the hat.
   

Pom-Pom For Infant Hat:

1. Cut a 3 inch piece of yarn.
   
2. Wrap both yarn colors from skein 35 times around the three fingers (NOT the thumb). Four fingers is the usual for a hat, but for a child/infant, the four-finger system creates waaaay to big of a pom-pom.
   
3. Cut away from skein.
4. Carefully pull yarn off the fingers .
   
5. Tie the yarn together in the center with the 3 inch piece of yarn - if it needs to be tighter, you can add a second piece.
6. Use scissors to cuts the loops on either side of the 3 inch piece of yarn.
7. Even out the pom-pom using scissors
8. Use a yarn needle to attach to your desired surface area at top of hat.