Do you see what I see? Of course you do: her little head is obviously freezing. In need of a hat. In need of a cute little....striped?.....hat. A hat in -- what else? -- green and pink. So. Because I have five different pink yarns tucked away into different corners in my bedroom, I figured that surely I'd be able to find one that matched this little dress....I was right. And the hat pattern is one I've used before. Unlike Mom, I'm not so good with hats, so it's good to have something to start out with. The basic idea is (for a 1-year-old hat)...
hat base: Cast on 78 stitches (with DK yarn); knit in a round for 3.25 -- 3.50 inches
hat shaping: knit 11, k2tog, and repeat, all the way around to the stitch marker.
Following row: knit.
Following row: knit 10, k2tog, and repeat, all the way around 'till stitch marker.
Following row: knit
Next: knit 9, k2tog and repeat, all the way around......
etc.!
the shaping/decreasing continues until you have 19 stitches for a round hat, or until you have 4 stitches for a pixie. obviously, we went with the pixie. It started out as a mistake on my part -- I misread the pattern -- but then we decided we liked it.
Now, if only we could keep those little ears tucked in.p.s. http://techknitting.blogspot.com/2007/01/jogless-stripes.html was a helpful introduction to the world of striping!
2 comments:
well, I absolutely love it (and the ears) and I'm going to try it. You must have figured out how to avoid the "notch" in the stripe pattern; does the bottom edge roll?
Mom -- the bottom doesn't roll because I alternated [1 row knit, 1 row purl] for 6 rows. If you knit the hat flat (and then seam it)...it's 6 rows of garter stitch.
as for the stiping -- I'll add a link to my post for the page I went to for help. I used the "traveling jogless stripes" method that the author writes about, but maybe you should try the easier "new way" she includes. I'm not sure what advantage the "jogless" method has...and it's way more complicated!
or maybe you can just go to the yarn barn and ask for help : ) That's probably the BEST thing to do!
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