I just knitted my first hat and it’s beautiful, but smaller than the “average adult head” size described in the pattern. It fits a small adult head.
I kept my floats loose, so that’s not the problem. I think I’m just a tight knitter.
My question: Can I solve the problem in future hats by using size 7 and 9 needles, instead of the 5 and 7 she recommends? Or would that somehow distort the design?
Good going and a lovely first hat. Definitely go up a needle size or even two sizes. That way you will get closer to the gauge given in the pattern. For now you can measure the gauge (sts/inch) on the current hat and see what you were getting.
That’s such an inspiring book of hats. Which National Park is this hat from?
Looks like it’s Great Basin, one of our more out-of-the-way NPs, on the Utah-Nevada border. They have a lot of bristlecone pines, which are some of the oldest living things on the planet. Some are 4 or 5 thousand years old.
It’s a gorgeous book of hats and now I see that the same author has one for the US states.
