Im making a hat on circulars with wool ease thick & quick. I had found a pattern for 45 sts that started decreases at k7 k2tog. I had to 
it because it wasnt big enough, so I cast on 55 sts instead. Is there a āformulaā or something for decreases? I was thinking that k10 k2tog would make things even, putting me back where I started. Im also hoping for kinda a āflatā top, kinda like the baby hat here
Whaddaya think? :??
I think if you use k10 k2tog you would then have more rows with decreases, right?
But since they give the same addvice on the baby hat, it might be right to do soā¦
Sorry, Iām not much of a help. :oops:
Of COURSE you are helping! That was exactly what I was thinkingā¦I just dont know if more dc rows is a GOOD thing???
I canāt wait to put this thing up on the finished projects pageā¦Itās gonna be really cute. Itās black TnQ with a smidge of aqua fun fur thrown in around the rolled edgeā¦matches a scarf Ive already made.
Does anyone think that more dc rows is a bad thing?
Hey KellyK!
You donāt want to do k10 k2tog, because that will span 12 stitches, and 12 doesnāt go into 55
The good news is, 55 is the perfect number to work with, because, like 45, it is divisible by 5, so you can still have a 5-pointed star type decrease, which is what the original one gave you.
The original one had 45 sts, and was k7, k2tog. The first decrease spans 9 sts., which, over 45 stitches, will give you 5 sections, and 5 decrease lines. Hope that makes sense.
In order to keep a similar decrease ratio, you want to keep it a 5-point decrease, soā¦
55 divided by 5 = 11. You want your first decrease row to have decreases spanning 11 stitches. This means k9, k2tog.
This will give you extra decrease rows, but this is GOOD, because your hat is nearly 20% bigger around (18% to be precise), so you also want it to be bigger going up, or itāll be a short hat. In fact, youāll also want to add more rows before you begin decreasing. If your lucky, your existing pattern says knit āthis many inchesā before decreasing, rather than āthis many rows,ā so you donāt have to do any math at all, just knit that many inches. If you have to figure out how many rows, then, letās seeā¦ 18% more rows might be right, but Iām not sure, so do some math and figure out how deep this will be, and hold a ruler up to your head and see if it looks right.
As far as the actual decrease rounds, they should work out perfectly, just decreasing at whatever rate they tell you, but starting with k9, k2tog.
Hope that helps!
Amy
:notworthy: OMGā¦Amy, you are BRILLIANT. :notworthy:
Thank you SO much!! 
As I said in another post, NUMBERS ARE HAAAARRRD! :doh: