I am completely confused! I want to make the Haley’s Comet Hat, but I’ve never followed a chart before, and maybe this was the wrong project to try, because the chart has me baffled!
First of all, the pattern has you cast on 8 stitches, but the chart is showing for the first few rows, you ignore most of those casted on stitches and only knit one stitch–am I reading this right?
Then, it says this about row 6: “One note about row 6, you should work the K, P, K into the double YO. Do this by unwinding the double YO so that it is one long loop and work your knit, purl and knit into it.”
What’s a “double yarn over”? I’m guessing that a double yarn over will give me two stitches, so what they’re telling you to do is knit, purl, and knit into both stitches as one? :noway:
Does this hat seem very difficult? I didn’t think so at first…I mean, I thought it would be tricky, but now I’m wondering if I should forget about buying yarn and should just scrap the project. :verysad:
The pattern says: “Using the charts provided work the lace pattern 8 times per round”. So you k all 8 stitches for 2 rounds, then do a kfb in each st on the 3rd. R 4 - k16; R 5 - yo2, k2, repeat around. The chart is just for one lace pattern repeat - you’re going to end up with 8 repeats (count the petals in the top of the hat shown in picture).
A yo2 is wrapping the yarn around the needle 2 times instead of just once like a regular yo. This gives you 2 extra stitches and on the 6th round you make 3 stitches out of it by dropping the YOs and knitting on the yarn itself.
Most patterns are a whole lot easier to do with yarn and needles in hand than they seem when reading them. Why don’t you use some leftover yarn and follow the pattern to try it out?
So on those first two rounds where there is only one stitch, you knit all the way around, and on the third round you increase all the way around. On the 4th, knit, and on the fifth, yo,yo, k,k all the way around.