I am currently working on a knitted blue cap. It is baby sized and very, very cute. My mother gave me a bunch of hat patterns that she had printed off of the web, this one was in the stack. This one looks like it may have been photocopied from a pamphlet; it doesn't have any of the trademark Internet addresses and such at the bottoms of the page.......
Sorry, was distracted there for a moment- my cat Sweet Pea is chasing a fly. Hee hee, so cute.
Anyway, the pamphlet or publication is called: Hats for the Entire Family by Eleanor Swogger. It is a Kraemer Publication. I'm not sure where Mom found the patterns, but at any rate there are several variations on the same simple hat. These patterns also use the multiple of eight cast on pattern- though this is not where I learned my crazy eight hat pattern. I highly recommend it as a continual source of inspiration for different styles of hat that uses the same basic recipe, as my Grams would say.
The pattern that I am using is as follows: with an odd number of stitches on the needle, knit three and purl one until hat is at length that you need, then K2tog every 8 stitches, maintaining as much of the pattern as possible. The purls spiral upwards as you knit adding fun and texture to the....
Sorry, cat again.
...adding fun and texture to a very simply styled hat.
It knits up fairly quickly, though the decreasing seems to take much longer than what I would like it to be. In fact, I was up until 1:30 am knitting and decreasing. I probably could have gotten it finished, but I was distracted by some of my favorite TV programming. I only have about five or six decrease rows left, so I should have it done sooner rather than later. Then I'll be able to turn the zero under hats, to one. =)
I'll attach a photo when I am finished. It really is a sweet little hat.
Sorry, was distracted there for a moment- my cat Sweet Pea is chasing a fly. Hee hee, so cute.
Anyway, the pamphlet or publication is called: Hats for the Entire Family by Eleanor Swogger. It is a Kraemer Publication. I'm not sure where Mom found the patterns, but at any rate there are several variations on the same simple hat. These patterns also use the multiple of eight cast on pattern- though this is not where I learned my crazy eight hat pattern. I highly recommend it as a continual source of inspiration for different styles of hat that uses the same basic recipe, as my Grams would say.
The pattern that I am using is as follows: with an odd number of stitches on the needle, knit three and purl one until hat is at length that you need, then K2tog every 8 stitches, maintaining as much of the pattern as possible. The purls spiral upwards as you knit adding fun and texture to the....
Sorry, cat again.
...adding fun and texture to a very simply styled hat.
It knits up fairly quickly, though the decreasing seems to take much longer than what I would like it to be. In fact, I was up until 1:30 am knitting and decreasing. I probably could have gotten it finished, but I was distracted by some of my favorite TV programming. I only have about five or six decrease rows left, so I should have it done sooner rather than later. Then I'll be able to turn the zero under hats, to one. =)
I'll attach a photo when I am finished. It really is a sweet little hat.
So I am posting on my own post. Huh. I finished the little blue spral hat. I am unhappy with the directions the recipe calls for to manage the decreases. The texture/spiral pattern of the hat gets compromised; it looks messy. Strangely, in the photo on the recipe its self, the hat looks great. I may pull it out and redo the decreases my way without the weirdness that the recipe asks for and see if that looks any better.
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