Decreasing and ribbing

How-to Questions
1

So I am working on this for the first time and am confused:
http://www.headhuggers.org/patterns/kpatt06.htm

When I start the decrease the ribbing goes all haywire. How do I prevent that from happening?? I am picking up a stitch and keeping with the knit one, purl one…

Thanks in advance!

2

I don’t think there is a way to keep a k1p1 ribbing going when you decrease, so it seems that they switch to all knits for the top of the hat.

3

hmm but won’t knitting all around look funny?

4

Apparently the designer didn’t thing so. I think trying to maintain ribbing would look funny, though. I think knitting it all probably is the best solution.

5

This would work much better with k2/p2 ribbing instead of k1/1… might change the look of the hat a bit, but worth a try. When you get to the decreases, do a row of k2tog/p2, then a round of k2tog/p1, then k1/p1 for 2 rounds, then k2tog around until your stitch count is small enough to gather.