Hi Knitting experts - I’m Ani, I’m new to this site and I’ve got a question for you - hoping you can help. :). (Ps I’m a beginner)
I’d like to make a hat with a foldable brim, but when you fold the brim, I’d like there to be stockinette stitch showing (not wavy purl stitches).
I’ve seen videos that do a double brim and then pull the edges together to join and then start knitting from that junction, but that’s not the look I’m after. Rather, I’d like the brim to be folded upwards (with SS showing).
If you have some tips on how to do that, that would be super helpful. Thanks!
Honestly I do not know if I understand what you want, but would it not be as easy as just purling instead of knitting while you do the foldable brim. It might need some proper blocking because stockinette wants to roll rather than laying flat.
Welcome!
I’m not sure I understand either. Do you want to make a hem in the hat like this one?
The hem folds to the inside and only stockinette shows. Or do you want to fold the brim up without hemming it to the hat? In that case you would knit in reverse stockinette but you’re going to have the problem of the stockinette curl as engblom noted.
What style of hat are you planning to make?
For example a stocking cap in the round you could work a ribbed band to fit around your head then turn your work around and work stockinette stitch so that when you turn up the “brim” the right side will show.
That helps. What you want is actually similar to the photo I posted but you want to make the brim twice as long. In your photo you can see the turned up edge isn’t a cast on or cast off edge but a fold. If you make the brim twice as long, then hem the cast on to the live sts, it’ll be long enough to fold again like the hat you posted.
It’s similar to this technique but you knit the brim is much longer so the it folds over and then turns up again.
So you knit the brim twice as long, and hem the edges just like she did in the video, and then just fold it once more? So while in the video you have 2 “layers” of knitted work, what you’re saying is that there would be 4 layers of knitted work?
Yes, I think that’s what’s going on in the hat you posted. That would give you the rounded edges that you see. The hem doesn’t have to extend all the way inside the hat but enough so that it doesn’t show at the edge near your face.
