How to knit
A Baby Pixie Hat
DIY Easy Knitted Pixie Bonnet for Waldorf Dolls
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hello and welcome to my channel
in this tutorial i'm going to be showing
you a simple and easy way
to knit a pixie bonnet for your doll the
first thing you're going to need to do
is take some measurements the first
measurement
is from one side of the jaw over the
head to the other side of the jaw
and make sure that you take notes of
these measurements as you go
the second measurement is from the top
of the forehead
extending about two or three centimeters
beyond the crown
of the head
so now that you've got those
measurements it's time to knit a test
square
so using your preferred yarn and the
recommended needle
size needle for that yarn cast on 10
stitches and knit in stocking stitch for
10 rows
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take a measurement of the width of your
test square
as well as the length of your test
square
next you're going to do some basic
calculations with our measurements
so you're going to take that initial jaw
to jaw measurement
and divide it by the width of your test
square
and times that by 10 because 10 was the
number of stitches we cast
on for that test square and this is
going to give you the number of stitches
that you'll need to cast on
you'll also get that front to back of
head measurement and divide it by
the length of your test square and times
that again by 10 because we
knitted 10 rows so you can see
that my initial jaw to jaw measurement
of 28 divided by my
width measurement of 4 times 10 it gives
me 70 stitches and
my front to back of head measurement
divided by 4
times 10 gives me 30. so i want to cast
on 70 stitches and knit
30 rows so here's my 70 stitches that
i've cast on
and i like to use the long tail cast on
method and i'll link
a youtube video to that method below
so you're going to want to knit four
rows of one by one
ribbing again i'll link a youtube video
below on how to do that
and then you simply knit in stocking
stitch
until you get to your desired length
so we took a measurement sorry we did a
calculation to
determine how many rows you would need
to knit to get to that length
however you can simply keep knitting
until you get to your desired length
so for me my desired length was about 12
centimeters
so i'm going to knit until i get to the
12 centimeter mark
and when you've gotten to that length
you simply cast off
and you'll be left with a rectangle that
looks something like this
so what you do now is you fold your
rectangle right sides together and
you're going to take a piece of yarn and
a tapestry needle
and sew that back seam together
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when you finish sewing that back seam
together tie off the yarn
and turn your piece right side out and
at this point it should be looking
something like this
so at this point you could leave the hat
like this however the bottom edge of the
bonnet isn't going to sit around the
neck very well
we actually need to shape that bottom
edge of the bonnet to be a little bit
smaller
so the way i'm doing that is i'm casting
on a stitch on the bottom edge
every second row
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this part can be quite fiddly so just
take your time and be patient
so after you've cast on your stitches
just go ahead and knit that row
and after you finish knitting you can
just cast off
so like i said before this is just going
to help the bonnet taper in
at that bottom edge a little bit more
and that's going to help it sit more
snugly around your doll's neck
and at this point you can try your
bonnet on your dolly model
so you can see here that it fits nice
and snuggly around her neck
and yeah it's looking good for the last
step we need to make the ties
so for this you you'll need a crochet
hook that's the recommended size for
your yarn
and you just cast on using um a slip
knot
you'll then crochet a single crochet but
you'll put your hook through the bonnet
at the bottom
corner where you want your ties to begin
and pull the loop
back through and this will secure your
tires onto the bonnet
then all you need to do is chain stitch
until your ties are the desired length
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use your doll as a reference to see how
long you want your ties to be
i think this length will be perfect for
my doll
tie off and do the same on the other
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side
using a tapestry needle weave in all of
the loose ends and trim them
and then you're done
