I was just playing around with some simple YO increases and K2tog decreases, and stumbled across this:
CO: odd number of stitches
Rnd 1: YO, K1, K2tog
Rnd 2: Knit all around
Rnd 3: K2tog, YO, K1
Rnd 4: Knit all around
Etc…
Kinda makes a honeycomb. I’ll bet this is in every basic pattern book ever written.
If I wanted to use this to make a simple cap, how should I decrease for the top and still stay in pattern?
I realize this question probably borders on being too involved to sit around and figure out for free, so I will respectfully accept “figure it out yourself!” as an answer But just in case any of you have done this before, how’d you do it?
I think a lot of people just change to stockinette before the decreases when using stitch patterns like that in a hat. (Or, if they are using a rib, they will decrease the size of the rib so it gets narrower toward the top.) If you want to keep in pattern, charting it out might help. Here’s a link.
ETA: Okay, the little gears in my brain have been spinning around and I think I may have come up with another possibility. I wonder whether you could do the hat flat (to be seamed) – probably doing it wedges would make the most sense – so that the decreases always came at the end of rows where it’s easier… or maybe you could do the hat in the round, but when you get to the part that needs to be decreased, treat it as though it were in wedges and do the decreases at those edges instead of “in pattern”… hm… brain starting to hurt… Well, I haven’t thought this through (obviously), and maybe it wouldn’t work, but I thought I’d throw it out as a possibility.
But just in case any of you have done this before, how’d you do it?