Step by Step mini bobble hat on French Knitter/loom

1. Step one is above: one large French Knitter from Readicut at £1.79, one hooking tool at 95p from Rainbowsilk and some variegated Shoeller and Stahl cotton ,Start by making a loop and putting it over the first prong as indicated by a line on the plastic loom.

2.Step 2 is wrap the yarn from the first prong round the back of the prong on the left, between the second and 3rd prong and across the front of the 2nd prong, through the gap between the 1st and 2nd prong and across the back of the 2nd prong and 3rd prong to repeat the prvious movement for the 3rd prong , continue thus for all prongs.( all 15 of them now have a wrapped loop and the first or 16th has a made or knotted loop.

Step3: now running the main yarn from right to left across the prongs and above the wrapped stitch, lift the wrapped stitch from step 2 over the yarn sitting across the front of the prong.

Step 4 : Continue all the way around in this way

The above is the top view of how this looks and the pictures are clickable for further close-up.The above is essentially the french kntiing method, continue around, counting each time you pass the line at the front of the loom, each round done is a ''row knitted''.

The above shows the loom with about 14 rows knitted.

The finished hat is 19 rows high in this instance, the cast on border rolls naturally and attractively forming the brim.

Step 5 is the cast off: you thread a needle with the yarn, you can cut it at about 3 circumference width length when the rows are completed.

Once the yarn is cut, thread it into a needle and work the needle into each stitch in turn, going in from the top and out from below the stitch , then lifting the stitch off the loom.

When all stithces are taken off you can tighten the yarn to make the top of the hat, sew the end in securely with 3 holding straight stitches.Trim end of thread.

Step 6: You can work in the started thread by loosely stitching the brim to secure the rolled part, but do it loosely or the hat won't stretch nicely over the top of the bottle.

Step 7: Make a pom pom.

I made one using a Clover pom pom tool of 35mm diameter but you can of course use any mwthod or size to suit your hat.

Or make a tassle for the top.

Step 8: Attach pom pom ( or tassle) to top of hat and securely fnish off any remainng ends.

The finished hat!

It used 6 grammes of a 50 g skein of cotton ( probably DK) and there was 90m in the 50g skein.

Made in part of an evening while comfortably watching an Agatha Christie murder mystery......