Left Hand Ponytail Beanie Free Pattern Workshop

Hey everyone in Stasia from crochet ever 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 gon na use a 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 gon na 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 gon na 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 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, then just hold on to that crossover over the yarn is meeting and reach through the loop that you just beat. Let'S make sure it's not all tangled reach through grab your working yarn. So 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 and 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 chain one. 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 gon na 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 and 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 ones 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, so 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 all right: we're ready to start round two and what we're gon na do is start increasing. So if you see increase on your pattern, usually the abbreviations will tell you how you're gon na increase and we're going to increase by doing two single crochets in every stitch around. So I'm not gon na join my rounds. I'M gon na work in a spiral so that there's no visible seam on the beanie. Now you can put your pony tail hole wherever you want and 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 need your fingernails or your fingers to help you get under just those two loops that the very beginning. Sometimes they get a little small, so ready 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 your place is. 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 it would 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 gon na go right back in lay over my yarn, pull up my loop and then yarn over and pull through both then I'm going to do the same thing in the remaining five stitches in my round. I'M gon na do two in each stitch, giving that last stitch and then my last single crochet. I know it's my last because I've got two in this 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 gon na 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. I like to count as much then I'm going to do one single crochet in my next stitch and that's going to be my pattern repeat so. You'Ll see brackets on the pattern and it's gon na 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 and then the brackets tell you to keep that. However many times it says after the brackets. Oh, 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 right 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 stitch 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 gon na turn into 24 stitches so again that very first single crochet, the very first V we're going to do two single crochets in it one. Let me put my stitch marker in then. We had two and now our spacing 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 a 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 I 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 time when we meet at the end. All right now just finish that previous round. So 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 cuz we're on round four. So now we're gon na do the same, but with five stitches, so we're gon na do two in the very first stitch or increase and then we're going to space those out by three stitches. So our repeat will be a total of five stitches. We have one two and then three and next stitch 4 and then the next stitch. Five, when we do that six times we end up with thirty stitches, so you'll see there is a definite pattern to how we increase or how I increase. And then you do it since there's a way what me it just cracks me up when people see me so five and we just keep doing that around six times total and then we're gon na increase some more alright just finish round five, so we're going to As a meeting 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 six stitches. We have one two and then we're gon na put for one single crochet and each of our next four stitches and we're gon na 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 gon na 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 gon na 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 your 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 a 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 up 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 gon na do. Otherwise, just keep going to the round that the pattern States so just like all of our previous rounds, we're gon na do an increase in the first stitch and then start spacing out our next increase by the next amount. So this is round eleven, so we're gon na 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 gon na be the same from there. Okay, so I finished through round 12. I'M now on round 13 and now we're gon na start on the even stitches. So if you're going for the twenty inch female size, you're gon na go all the way up to round twelve of increasing and then we're gon na 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 gon na see little crochet in every stitch. You come to know increasing. No, nothing, we're just gon na keep doing that over and over again as many rounds as it takes for where you want your ponytail hole. So if you don't want a ponytail hole, you're just gon na keep single crocheting to the end of the pattern. But if you want the ponytail hole, you're gon na go and single crochet round after round. As you start single crocheting, it's gon na take a couple of rounds before this starts to cup up into a beanie shape, but you're gon na keep putting it on your head. So put your head in 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 gon na keep single crocheting checking or the beanie lies on your head in relativity to your pony town. Once it hits the top of your ponytail you're gon na come back and you're gon na 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 where 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 hold hold pony tail hold on we're going to make it right now at the beginning of the round. So I'm gon na make my pony tail hole. Five stitches wide aside, one two, three four: five: that should be big enough for my pony, some pretty thick pony tail. You might want to adjust it. What you can do is make this round and the next round and then right on and put your ponytail 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 gon na do is five stitches wide, so I'm gon na chain five. So, however, many stitches, why do you want your ponytail whole 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 gon na go into this sixth stitch and do a single crochet. So now I 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 gon na 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 gon na 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 that last single crochet of round 25. 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 gon na do, is I'm gon na 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 gon na reach through the entire chain yarn over pull it up single crochet, there's over a little bit if they're starting to spread Out and get five of them in there and it's gon na create enough. I'M not a whole lot nicer edge. Then if you were working into each of those loops by themselves, then we just single crochet again. This is a super single crochet project, so we're gon na go all the way around. So this is the time to try on your beanie put your hair in a 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 gon na keep going after this round. I'M gon na keep on going until I get to the end of my beanie cuz. That'S all we're doing. We just we put our hole in there, four for our ponytail 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 is in normal beanie, so that's a plus as well, but I'm gon na keep going to the round stated in the pattern to finish my beanie. If you want a slouchy beanie, which we've probably thought she beanies 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 A splashy 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 gon na do or technically one round before you're happy, because we're gon na do one last round too mask the offset. So if you see, if I stopped right now, my beanie, I would have this little offset. I 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 gon na fix that and make it almost invisible, so keep on single, crocheting and I'll see it in a minute. I all right: 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 in round 32 is gon na 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 leftover 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'll have plenty of yarn leftover, so anyways, never 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 gon na do is kind of a fake join. So in our next stitch or the beginning stitch of round 32 we're gon na slip stitch so we're just gon na 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 gon na join it at the end, so we're gon na do a chain one, so we get some height and then we're gon na single crochet in that same slip, stitch so we're gon na go ahead and do A single crochet right there and then we're gon na start single crocheting. All the way around, so we're just gon na 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 at my last single crochet around 32. Then I'm going to single. I mean that single crochet into this slip stitch into my first single crochet of the round. So I'm not, let's skip that chain, one not pay attention to that. Go right under both loops of the first single crochet. I made pull that through and pull through there. I'M just tighten that down to close up any kind of gap, then we're gon na fasten off. So I like to fasten off by yarning over and pulling just kind of a long chain. Then 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 plenty tell the world here, but if you're wearing it - and you don't want to have a pony tail, it's close enough that you probably wouldn't even notice it worse than anybody behind you, because you Probably put this in the back: they wouldn't notice it. So that is our pony tail or beanie. With a pony tail hole, it was a viewer-request stuff. Do you guys have any 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