I would like to knit this hat for my husband:http://www.thistlecovefarm.com/bebe_pattern.html
According to the pattern gauge the instructions are for a 20 inch head. My husband’s head is 23 inches. I know that I will have to cast on 9 more stitches to get 3 more inches but I am not sure about the decreases so that I end up with 6 stitches for the long tail. If anyone can help me I will be very happy and my husband will be wearing a funny hat…
Thanks.
Instead of adding 9 more stitches, add 10. The decreases seem to be in a multiple of 10, so you’d do one more.
Thank you, Ingrid. I know you must be right!
Actually no… thought I hate to contradict Ingrid. Usually you want the hat about 2" [I]less[/I] than the head size because hats stretch and one that’s the same size as the head will be too large. Only cast on about 6 more sts and that should come out right.
The hat is 20 inches…
I was actually thinking about this today. You read my mind from far away…
But, how will I do the decreases so that I end up with the 6 stitches?
How about CO 64 sts (would 4 more sts be enough?) then you can start with k6, k2tog for the dec rounds, then k5 k2tog, etc.
But with 66 I guess you can k9, k2tog, k8, k2tog, k7, k2tog, and so on.
I think that you are supposed to keep doing knit 8, knit 2 together until you are left with 6. There is supposed to be a certain pattern that the decreases make. The pattern says that the top of the hat will have a swirl pattern.
Maybe it will be ok to make the hat the way it is…
You can’t keep doing k8 k2tog until you’re down to 6. That decs 6 sts every round, the following dec round you have to do 1 less stitch between the k2tog. The pattern doesn’t spell out what you should do every round, she just wrote how to start the decs, but then you’d have to have a st less each following dec round. That’s how you get the swirl.
ha ha ha! Of course! No wonder I haven’t made many things! Silly me… when I look at the tops of some of the hats I have made they have swirls, too. Sheesh!