The topic may seem peculiar and many of you may even curse me for selecting it when there are many other issues unattended, but let me assure you this topic is no less significant and shall prove to be an eye opener of sorts for many. Moreover, this is a very creative task that will test your creative skills like never before.

Here are a few tips that should help you to get a grasp of it:

When you start knitting from the flaps up, cast on for flap 1 with a long tail cast on, and make sure that you leave 12 – 14 inches of waste yarn. Repeat the same procedure while moving on to flap no 2.

The next step requires you to make the first flap, break yarn. Continue knitting the second flap, and cast on the required stitches to reach the first flap, and you are done with the back neck of the cap. Knit in pattern across the first flap, and turn. Then, Knit back across flap 1, the cast on stitches and flap 2. You can even go for another 2-3 rows in pattern across both flaps and the stitches in between, ending with a wrong side row. This ensures that you have an extra3/4 inch or so of knitting at the back of the neck which comprehensively increases the comfort level. After you are one with the above things, cast on the remaining stitches from flap to flap for the front of the hat and finish as usual.

The waste yarns now come into the limelight, which usually are available in different lengths. Weave these extra strands into the first few stitches of the ear flap with the yarn tails hanging down next to the cast on tail. There is no rule as such regarding the number of yarn pieces you may have and is to be decided by you. After some practice your knitting work might even be as refined as the Zapf Creation Little Chou Chou Knit Set, although it will undoubtedly take awhile to get that level.

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