It's Haturday!

(Originally posted on Feb 10, 2007)
Between now and this time last week, I've made 3 hats. The first was the felted cloche as seen in my last post, the second looks like this:



This one is not so good. I made it too big. I didn't realize this until it was too late. You see, what happened was that I cast on enough stitches for a me-sized hat on size 8 needles. About 5 inches in, I realized that I was in fact using size 9 needles. Oops. So, I ended up making it too short because I was too lazy to frog the whole thing and start over. Not to mention, I have two poorly placed stripes of color because of this. So, I have a too short, too wide funny looking hat. Ho hum.

So, I wanted to make a nice hat. That is where this:


hat comes in. This is a pithy hat based (incredibly loosely) on this pattern: http://www.littleturtleknits.com/pithyhat.htm -- the red hat, not the green one. This hat turned out very, very nicely. In case anyone is wondering what I did:

Size 8 needles 16" circs, Paton's Classic Wool

I c/o 78 stitches, knit about an inch in k2p2 rib and then increased every 3rd stitch (by kfb of every 3rd stitch), to get 104 stitches. Then, I knit straight for about 8 inches. For the decreases, I k2tog across the row, knit two rows straight and then I repeated that. Finally, I pulled the yarn through all my stitches, cinched the top and weaved in my ends.
So, all in all, I think Haturday turned out to be a success. Now, I just need to find a girl that has a very big but very short head to give that first hat to.



EDIT: I just realized that my pithy hat looks very small in the picture. Just for reference, I have it pushed back so that there is that bunchy effect in the back. I can also pull it down to cover my forehead and earlobes if it gets VERY cold.