Ponytail Beanie Free Crochet Pattern Workshop

Hey everyone in Stasia, from crochet after calm today we're making a viewer-request project and it was a beanie with a pony tail hole. So when you're going running in this upcoming winter - and you need a pony tail, you can just stick it through the hole in your beanie that you can make with this pattern. So we're going to use worsted weight yarn this yarn, I'm actually going to be giving away a whole hank so check out my website. If you like this yarn, you can win some it'll be up for a little while after this post, but we're going to use worsted and we're going to use a six millimeter usj hook and that's all you need plus a yarn needle, but that's it. So let's get started alright, so to begin our beanie we're going to do a magic adjustable loop. So the easiest way to explain how to get that loop is to hold your yarn in both hands and the hand. That'S holding the loop so right hand if you're right-handed the left, if you're left-handed is going to just turn down and create a crossover and just hold onto that crossover over the yarn is meeting and reach through the loop that you just paid so make sure it's Not all tangled reach through grab your working yarns. You have your tail in your working yarn and pull that through and then what I like to do when I'm doing single crochet magic adjustable loops, is just do a slip, stitch and tighten it down that grabs. Holding my magic adjustable loop and now it won't come undone. So there's a couple different ways that you can start your very first single crochet. You can do a chain one to begin or what I like to do as well is pull out my chain just a tad, so it's a little bit longer than normal and just start single crocheting. So the reason that I pull it out a little bit before I do my very first single crochet is it makes it more in line with the rest of my single crochets. So when I come back around it's easy to see and easy to work into those first, two loops or that first V, so pull out your chain just a little bit, if you don't want to otherwise, when you come around, if you have a chain one, you Ignore it - and you just start working into your very first single crochet that you made so to work those single crochets you're, going to reach through your loop grab your working yarn. It kind of just lays right over the top of your hook, grab it and pull it up. Then you're going to yarn over from back to front you'll, see that I kind of hold on everything because it all wants to undo itself and get tangled and everything else so hold onto everything. With all your extra fingers and yarn over and then pull through the two loops on your hook, so I need to do six of these total I've got four five and six, and if you're, not counting when you're making these, what you can do is turn your Work and count the tops of your stitches it'll be easier to count than all of these little lines that you have going on the front so just turn it sideways and count your V's. So you don't count the one it's on your hook. That'S your working loop count, one two, three, four five and six, so we have a total of six, which is what we need so we're going to close up our magic adjustable loop, so grab your tail hold on to that very last stitch. You made right where the yarn comes out and pull the tail. That'S going to close up your hole, so you have a completely closed hole on the top of your beanie. Then we're ready for round two alright ready to start round two and what we're going to do is start increasing. So if you see it increase on your pattern, usually the abbreviations will tell you how you're going to increase and we're going to increase by doing two single crochets in every stitch around. So I'm not going to join my rounds, I'm going to work in a spiral. So that there's no visible seam on the beanie now way, you can put your pony tail hole wherever you want I'll explain more about customizing the hole once we get closer to where it's going to be placed. So I'm going to go under my first two loops of the very first single crochet and use your fingernails or fingers to help you get under just those two loops that there be beginning. Sometimes they get a little small, so write a yarn over pull through pull up our loop and do our first single crochet because we're working in a spiral it can get very easy to lose your stitch count or lose where you're places. So I recommend using a stitch marker or a piece of yarn, and what I do is I put the stitch marker right under the top two loops of my very first stitch. Some people like to put it in the last stitch of their previous round so come over here I like to put in the first stitch of the round. So that way I can keep working all the way around to the end without having to stop so. I'Ve got my first single crochet now I need to put another one in that same stitch, so you see that little hole right there, I'm just going to go right back in lay over my yarn pull up my loop, then yarn over and pull through both then I'M going to do the same thing and the remaining five stitches in my round. I'M going to do two in each stitch. Giving that last stitch do my last single crochet. I know it's my last because I've got two in the stitch and the stitch markers right here, so that helps me to stop also. I know when my round is done, if you're not counting completely so our next round, what we're going to be doing is increasing again, but we have to space them out. So, for the geometry of making a single crochet round a flat is every round we need to increase by six stitches. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to increase in the very first stitch of this round. So I'm going to do two single crochets. One and two I'm going to put my stitch marker in that very first one not count as much then I'm going to do one single crochet in my next stitch. That'S going to be my pattern repeat so: you'll see brackets on the pattern and it's going to say single crochet two times in the next stitch and then comma single crochet. So when you see a comma, that means go to your next stitch and do the next instruction that you're, given the brackets, tell you to keep repeating that, however many times it says after the bracket, so it says six times so that means I'm going to do That pattern six times on my round, so I'm going to do two single crochets in my next stitch and then a single crochet in the stitch. After then, I go back to the beginning of my brackets and do two single crochets again and then one single crochet in the next stitch, where you do that three more times to finish off the round. Alright, my last stitch here just one single crochet, so you can see like I said that you don't have to count as much when you have the stitch marker, because normally this is going to be 18 stitches all the way around. But I can count just three at a time I can say one two for the increase, then three for the single, then one two, three one, two three. I can just keep doing that until I hit this ditch marker, and I know that I'm done with my round, so I don't have to actually count out 18 stitches. So my next one's going to turn into 24 stitches so again that very first single crochet, a very first V we're going to do two single crochets in it one we put my stitch marker in then we have two and now our space in those increases out By two stitches, so I'm going to do one single crochet in this stitch and one single crochet in the next stitch. So again we have those brackets. It tells us single crochet two times in the next stitch single crochet in next two stitches. So there's difference. You'Re doing two single crochets in one stitch and then a single crochet in your next two stitches, so single crochet, single crochet, so we're doing that again all the way around six times, so how you can count this if you have your stitch. Marker is one two for your increase, then three for that first one and four for the second one. So you can just count up to four until you hit your stitch marker and you're good, instead of having to count 24 stitches and possibly get lost on where your increases go, we space the increases out also in case you're, wondering evenly, so we have an even Circle, if I put six increases right here, if I just did tu-tu-tu-tu-tu-tu, I would get like a weird lump over here and it would look really misshape and it wouldn't create a nice circle. So that's why we have to spread them out evenly so keep going around and we'll start on the next round when we meet at the end all right. I just finished that previous rounds now we're moving on we're on round one two three four round: five and you can tell a round drawn by how many stitches that you're putting into your brackets. So we did four over how we did one two three four, because we're on round four. So now we're going to do the same, but with five stitches. So we're going to do two in the very first stitch or increase. Then we're going to space those out by three stitches, so our repeat will be a total of five stitches, so we have one two and then three and next stitch 4 and then the next stitch 5. When we do that six times we end up with 30 stitches, so you'll see there is a definite pattern to how we increase, how I increase, and then you do it since there's only one of me. I just cracks me up on people say we sew five and we just keep doing that around six times total and then we're going to increase some more alright just finish round five. So we're going to as a me and you not two of me - we are going to keep doing that kind of increase where we do two single crochets in the first stitch of the round and then we're going to increase our single crochets between our increases by One each round, so this is round six, so we need a total of six stitches. We have one two and then we're going to put for one single crochet in each of our next four stitches and we're going to keep doing that each round so make the round after this will be five stitches between each increase and then six stitches and so Forth and so forth, so we're going to keep going around me and you and we're going to get to round ten and then we'll meet back up. So we can move forward with the pattern. So just keep doing those increases, follow the pattern and do your single crochets between each increase keep your stitch marker, so you don't lose count and we'll meet back up on round ten. Okay. I have finished all the way through round ten and I still have a few more rounds to go before I get to my even stitches, and I call when you make just one single crochet in each stitch around. Those are my even stitches, because just the same over and over again, the reason I wanted to stop at round ten was so if you wanted to customize the size of your beanie now this round, the outside is called the circumference. So, just if you're not familiar with that term and usually the circumference of an adult female head is around 20 inches. So if you measure around the biggest part of your head, where the beanie is going to sit, it should be around 20 inches and then go up a couple inches for a man down a couple inches for a child. But if you want to get it as close as possible to the head that you're intending to make this for what you can do is measure the head whatever you're inches. Is you divide it by 3.14, which is PI so 3.14 dividing into the circumference of your head will give you how far across this part of your beanie should be so, for example, for 20 inch head divided by 3.14, and you get about six and a half Inches so if I take my measuring tape - and I take it to one end of my beanie to the other end - you can see that I'm about 5 and 3/4 inches across. So I still need to get all the way over here to six and a half inches. So if you want to make this custom size, if you're making it for maybe a man or a little kid when you divide by 3.14, if you get five and a half inches, you could probably stop right here at round ten and then start just single crocheting. If you're making it for man, you might need to go to seven. I can't remember what exactly the 22 divided by 3.14 is right now, but somewhere around seven. So you can go all the way out to seven so as you're making each round stop and measure it afterwards to see what Shore you're across measurement is, which is your diameter and once your diameter hits that correct inch mark, you can stop and just start crocheting. Even so I'll go over more of the crocheting, even once I get to my six and a half inches, which is the round. That'S stated on your pattern, so if you're making it for something special, you want a certain size. That'S what you're going to do. Otherwise, just keep going to the round that the pattern states so just like all of our previous rounds, we're going to do an increase in the first stitch and then start spacing out our next increase by the next amount. So this is around 11. So we're going to space it out by nine stitches, so keep going to the pattern, tells you or until you hit your correct diameter and then everything else is going to be the same from there. Okay, so I finished through round 12, I'm now on round 13 and now we're going to start on the even stitches. So if you're going for the 20 inch female size, you're going to go all the way up to round 12 of increasing and then we're going to start bending our beanie into an actual beanie shape. Now this part coming up, it's all just single crochets. So a stitch marker comes in really handy because you're going to single crochet in every stitch, you come to know increasing nothing, we're just going to keep doing that over and over again as many rounds as it takes for it, where you want your ponytail hole. So if you don't want a ponytail hole, you're just going to keep single crocheting to the end of the pattern, but if you want the ponytail hole, you're going to go and single crochet round after round. As you start single crocheting, it's going to take a couple of rounds before this starts to cup, up into a beanie shape, but you're going to keep putting it on your head. So put your hand a ponytail where you normally like to put your ponytail. Some people like high ponytails, I usually have pretty low ponytails, so put your ponytail in and then just keep trying on your beanie until the beanie reaches the top of your ponytail. So hopefully that makes sense. You'Re just going to keep single crochet checking or the beanie lies on your head in relativity to your pony town once it hits the top of your ponytail you're, going to come back and you're going to watch how to make the pony tail hole. So I'm going to keep going and see where mine ends up I'll. Let you know what round mine is on when I get there and then I'll show you how to make that hole. Okay, I have gone all the way up to round 24. For my beanie. That'S why I want my pony tail hole to be you remember you can change it do less or more, depending on where you want your pony tail to be so, try it on as you're making it to check that out. But what we're going to do is on the next round round 25 or whatever round you want your pony tail hold cold and hold pony tail hole on we're going to make it right now at the beginning of the round. So I'm going to make my pony tail hole, five stitches wide, so one two three four five that should be big enough for my pony tail have a pretty thick pony tail. You might want to adjust it. What you can do is make this round and the next round and then try it on and put your pony tail through, so that way, you're not making the whole beanie and if it's too big or too small, you have to rip out lots and lots of Rounds, if you make it just these two rounds and you can try it on and see how you like the hole, but what I'm going to do is five stitches wide, so I'm going to chain five. So, however, many stitches, why do you want your ponytail hole chain that many stitches so chain? Five now skip the same amount of stitches that you chained. So I have five stitches one, two, three, four five, I'm skipping all of those and I'm going to go into this sixth stitch and do a single crochet. So now I've created my hole. So this is why you want to do one more round after this, so that you get kind of a thicker you'll see what we're going to do on the next round to work into this, so that it creates a nice hole for your ponytail. So that way, you can see if you like the five stitches wide or if you want to go more or less, but what we're going to do is just single crochet again all the way around until we get back to our chains, so you can throw a Stitch marker in there, but you probably don't need one since the first stitch is a chain, it's kind of easy to see so just single crochet, all the way around again until you get back to that first chain and my last single crochet of round twenty-five. So now I have these chains. I have two ways that I can work into them. I can either go into a loop and start single crocheting across each loop, but I don't really like that, because you can kind of see that open, gaping hole that I get when I do that. So what instead I'm going to do, is I'm going to work. All the way around the chain, so I have five chains, so I need to do five single crochets around this chain, so you're just going to reach through the entire chain yarn over pull it up. Single crochet push it over a little bit if they're starting to spread out and get five of them in there, and it's going to create enough. I'M not a lot nicer edge than if you were working into each of those loops by themselves. Then we just see. Look again, this is a super single crochet project, so we're going to go all the way around. So this is the time to try on your beanie. Put your hair and ponytail put it on make sure that it fits through the hole you just created. If your hole is too big, go down a chain or two or however many you need, if it's too small go up a chain, just remember, to skip the same amount of stitches that you chain and then put those same amount of single crochets back into that Chain so five chains skip five stitches, then go back and put five single crochets back around those chains, so we're going to keep going after this round, I'm going to keep on going until I get to the end of my beanie, because that's all we're doing we Just put our hole in there for our for our point tail and it's not super noticeable. So if you don't want to put your ponytail in one day, it should still be pretty good to wear as a normal beanie. So that's a plus as well, but I'm going to keep going to the round stated in the pattern to finish my beanie. If you want a slouchy beanie, which we've probably slouchy beanie, is not the greatest idea for the ponytail, because it's gon na not work because you you have it put for the size of your head, but from wearing it so mix that you don't want to do. The splotchy ponytail beanie, but if you like your beanie to cover your ears, really good or come down really far on your forehead, you might want to adjust the rounds that I put for the pattern. So it's kind of a personal thing: try it on as you're making it and when you get to the link that you like. If you don't like how many rounds, I have listed just stop when you're happy and then we're going to do or technically one round before you're happy because we're going to one last round to mask the offset. So if you see if I stopped right now, my beanie - I would have this offset - have this single crochet up here and it doesn't line up with the next one, because we're working in spirals so at the very last round we're going to fix that and make It almost invisible so keep on single crocheting and I'll see it in a minute. Alright, I've done the extra rounds that I've wanted, that I wanted so that I could have the beanie cover my ears and forehead. So I'm up to around 31 and round 32 is going to be my final round. You can do less if you don't want your beanie coming as far down on your head or you can do extra. So one thing, because you can't really do a slouchy beanie with this, but you can do some extra rounds and you can fold up if you like, a flap on your beanie. I like just kind of flat straight beanie. So I just I'm sticking with the 31 rows, but there's plenty of yarn left over in my bowl. So I could do that if I wanted to so, if you're, if you win the yarn that I'm giving away. That'S the same as this yarn on my giveaway that you can check out on my blog. You can make extra rounds and you have plenty of yarn leftover, so anyways now we're on round 32 and what I wanted to do was get rid of this off, set that we have our rounds are worked in spirals, so we always get this offset because we Don'T join so what we're going to do is kind of a fake join so in our next stitch or the beginning stitch of round 32 we're going to slip stitch so we're just going to grab in slip stitch and that kind of brings it down. But it's still kind of noticeable when you're wearing the beanie, so we're gon na do one more round of single crochet, but we're going to join it at the end. So we're going to do a chain one. So we get some height and then we're going to single crochet in that same slip, stitch, so we're going to go ahead and do a single crochet right there and then we're going to start single crocheting all the way around. So we're just going to do. One final round of the single crochet and then when we join it up over here at the end, it's going to be pretty much flat and not noticeable with that offset so single crochet all the way around and then we'll meet up at the join. Alright, I'm in my last single crochet of around 32, then I'm going to single and that single crochet I'm gon na slip stitch into my first single crochet of the round. So I'm not. Let'S skip that chain. One I'll pay attention to that! Go right under both loops of the first single crochet. I made pull that through and pull through there just tighten that down to close up any kind of gap. Then we're going to fasten off so I like to fasten off by yarning over and pulling just kind of a long chain cut it, and I pull out the tail that's attached to my yarn and I have just the tail to weave in so you can see That by doing that last round of single crochet, it gives me a nice flat edge all the way around. So it's not as noticeable as that offset that we had so I'm going to weave in this end and then we'll take a look at the finished beanie. Alright, we got it all finished and woven in and you can see our ponytail will here, but if you're wearing it - and you don't want to have a plenty tail - it's close enough that you probably wouldn't even notice it or anybody behind you, because you probably put This in the back, they wouldn't notice it. So that is our ponytail or beanie. With a pony tail hole. It was a viewer-request. If you guys have any viewer requests, make sure you leave them in the comments and I'll add them to the viewer queue on my website. But thank you all for watching. You