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Basic Cap Pattern
Knitting for newborns is always a joy 🧶✨. This Basic Cap Pattern is a simple, quick project perfect for beginners. It’s warm, soft, and a great way to welcome a little one into the world 🍼💛. I hope you enjoy making it!
| Size: | newborn (head size 36 cm) |
| Gauge: | 20 sts x 28 rows = 10 x 10 cm in stockinette stitch on 4.5 mm needles after blocking |
| Needles: | Circular needles: 4.5 mm / 40, 60 cm or the required needle size to obtain gauge |
| Materials: | 25 g Angora 70 (50 g = 350 m) 2-stranded or another yarn with the correct gauge |
Pattern
Cast on 49 sts on 4.5 mm / 60 cm circular needles with your preferred cast-on method. I use a Bulgarian cast on. Knit in flat rows.
The first row is a WS row. Purl across 1 row. The next row is a RS row.
| Row 1: | edge st, knit 1 st, purl 45 st, SL1 PW, p1. |
| Row 2: | edge st, knit 46 st, SL1 PW, p1. |
Repeat rows 1 and 2 – 13 more times.
| Row 29: | edge st, knit 1 st, purl 45 st, SL1 PW, p1. |
| Row 30: | edge st, knit 48 st. |
Join your work in the round.
Transfer the last stitch on the lefthand side needle to the righthand side needle, pull the stitch on the right needle over the stitch on the left needle, return the stitch on the left needle and pull on the thread. This is your round beginning.
The next row 31 is a round row. There are now 48 sts on the needle.
| Row 31: | knit 48. |
| Row 32: | knit 3 sts, * K2togR, knit 6 sts * … repeat 4 times, K2togR, knit 3 sts. |
| Row 33: | knit 42. |
| Row 34: | knit 3 sts, * K2togR, knit 5 sts * … repeat 4 times, K2togR, knit 2 sts. |
| Row 35: | knit 3 sts, * K2togR, knit 4 sts * … repeat 4 times, K2togR, knit 1 sts. |
| Row 36: | knit 3 sts, * K2togR, knit 3 sts * … repeat 4 times, K2togR. |
| Row 37: | knit 3 sts, * K2togR, knit 2 sts * … repeat 4 times, K2togR. |
| Row 38: | knit 2 sts, * K2togR, knit 1 sts * … repeat 4 times, K2togR. |
Crown shaping
- Return the last stitch you worked (which is K2togR) on the left needle. Itis stitch A.
- In turn pull the stitches to the left from stitch A to it and pull over it.
- Once you are left with stitch А only, pull on it and break yarn leaving a 10 cm tail. Draw the yarn tail through stitch A and pull tight. Weave in the tail.
Weave in all yarn tails and do the blocking in accordance with your yarn label recommendations. Dry on a horizontal surface. There are 3 ways to make ties on my YouTube.
| k | knit |
| K2togR | right-leaning decrease stitch; knit two stitches together |
| K2togRL | left-leaning decrease stitch; knit two stitches together |
| p | purl |
| SL1 PW | slip 1, working thread in front of your work |
| RS | right side of your work |
| WS | wrong side of your work |
| st(s) | stitch(es) |
| edge st | edge stitch; slip the first stitch of a row, working thread behind your work |
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