Knit a beanie with a loom without using knitting needles at all.
Knitting looms are round or straight frames with pegs sticking out of the top level. The pegs on a knitting loom take the place of knitting needles for the knitter to create items using yarn. You can use a round knitting loom to make a beanie style hat if you memorize the basic format for use a round knitting loom.
Instructions
1. Anchor your yarn around the anchor peg on your loom. This is the peg that sticks out of the side of the loom; wrap your yarn around this peg three or four times to hold the yarn in place.
2. Wrap your yarn around the peg immediately to the right of the anchor peg. Wrap the peg in a counter-clockwise direction as if you were writing a lower-case cursive letter "e." Continue to wrap every other peg in the same manner, moving in a clockwise direction around the loom.
3. When you get back to your first peg, wrap the loom two more times so that there will be a total of three loops of yarn on every peg. Anchor the yarn around the anchor peg a second time.
4. Use your loom hook or crochet hook to lift the bottom loop off of the first peg. Lift the yarn loop up and over the peg from the outside to the inside of the loom and drop the loop on the inside. Repeat this with every peg on the loom, moving in a clockwise direction.
5. When you finish one series of loops, unwind the yarn from the anchor peg and wrap each peg once more, then knit another row with your loom hook. Repeat this process until the hat reaches its desired height.
6. Cut your working yarn, leaving a 10-inch tail. Attach it to a large eye blunt needle and thread the needle through each loop left on the loom, removing the loops as you go. Pull tightly on the yarn like a drawstring to close the top of the hat. Pull the working yarn inside the hat, tie a knot and weave in your loose ends using your large eye blunt needle.
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