Christmas in June: How to Make Adorable Baby Beanies

If you start now, You can make this adorable beanie from old sweater sleeves for most of the little ones you know in the family by Christmas!!  This one happens to be  in the Legend Of Zelda's Link style.  This will take a little sewing, so be sure to have access to a sewing machine.  To start, gather your material, you will need:

•  An old long sleeve sweater (you can thrift shop for different colors and textiles).  It just needs to be stretchy in the cuff (wide enough to go over a babies  head.)

• Yarn
• Buttons
• 1 yarn needle

Step 1: Cut your sleeve off at the shoulder

Step 2: After cutting the sleeve, turn the sleeve inside out and  measure 10 inches from  the cuff and place a straight pin for your guide line.

 

 

Step 3: .  Continue to  place straight pins at an angle starting from your 10 inch mark all the way to the top of the shoulder.

 

 

Step 4. Sew along your angled pin line all the way to the top.

 

Step 5: Trim the excess sleeve along the seam line all the way to the top.

Step 6: Turn the sleeve inside out.

 

Your sleeve should now resemble a hat!

  

Step 7: Thread your yarn needle with your desired color of yarn. The  length  of yarn should be about 30 inches long.

Step 8: Insert yarn needle into the top of the bottom stripe , if you don't have a striped sleeve, just start at the bottom and make your own pattern.

 

9 : Pull the needle through and insert again.

 

10: In the above 3 photos, I am showing you how to loop your needle back through your first stitch, and pull the yarn through, creating this slip stitch effect.

 

 

Your stitch should look like the picture above!.

11: Continue these stitches in this order, slip stitching with each stitch as you go around the hat, when you get to the end of your row, tie off your yarn with a knot on the inside of the hat.  Just like the photos above. Then continue doing the same for each row. You can do as many or as little as you prefer, be the designer.

 

 

12: Now you are ready to make the pom pom for the tip of the hat! Simply wind your yarn around your fingers to the desired width, here I have about 2 1/2 inches, wrap the yarn around your finger 20 to 25 times , for a smaller less puffy pom pom you will want to wrap your yarn around your finger 15 times, or for a thicker pom pom, wrap up to around 30, you decide and play around with it.

Your yarn should look like this when your done wrapping.

13: Lay your bundle of yarn on a flat surface.

14: Place another strip of yarn 6 inches long underneath.

15: Tie the yarn around the bundle tight, then tie the yarn into a double knot.

16: Get your scissors and cut through both ends of the loops.

Your puff ball should look like this at this point.

17: Now tie another 6 inch piece of yarn around the puff ball, you are going to use this to secure

the puff ball to the end of the hat. Fluff out you puff ball.

18:  Place your yarn needle through one end of the piece of yarn you just tied on the puff ball.

19: Now  place the needle  through the tip of the hat, and pull  the yarn through.

20: Now pull  the puff ball tight to the end by tightening the yarn, then tie the yarn into a knot.

Your puff ball should now look like this.

21: Now Sew your buttons on!

Ta-da! Here is your finished hat. Which is actually a beanie!

 

I love to make these for my Grandkids, and they love them as well! It is inexpensive, and goes by quick once you get the hang of it! The sky is the limit for design, and if you aren't a thrift shopper....... you will quickly become one, keeping that keen eye out for design, color, and cool buttons on someone's "has been" cool outfit.