Saturday, July 24, 2010

So... many... HATS



Did I just knit 6 hats in a week?
Maybe...
So it started off as a sweater. Then the bottom back of the sweater somehow became a beanie hat (It has been.... misplaced. Which is why it's not pictured above). After that, a bright idea came to me "Hey, I'll make a beret!"
That explains the two ugly beret's on the left of the pictures...
Those didn't look good, so I kind of modeled the top of the hat off the circular pillow design (There I go reusing the same ideas again!). That was how the three hats on the right came to be.

So, the pattern:

Cast on 1 stitch
Row 1: Purl 1 stitch
Row 2: Increase on the 1 stitch
Row 3: Purl back across the 2 stitches
Row 4: Increase on the first stitch, then knit through the rest of the row
Row 5: Purl back across the row
Row 6: Knit across row, increasing on the last stitch
Row 7: Purl back across the row

Repeat rows 4-7 until you reach the desired size. The hats I made varied in size and the number of stitches. The red and blue ones on the right are 20 stitches wide at their widest, while the green one is 15 stitches at its widest.

Row ?: Knit in stockinette stitch for eleven rows, finishing off the Wrong Side row.
Row ?: *Decrease one stitch on each end of the Right Side row.
Row ?: Decrease one stitch in the center of the row on the Wrong Side.

Repeat from * until you reach 10 sts.

Make 8 of those triangle things, sew the pieces together, add a band along the inside of the hat (crocheted bands are quick, easy, and work quite well), hide all those extra strings and Presto! You now have a cool hat.

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