Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Hat 4 & Boston's Museum of Science

We headed out as a family to Boston's Museum of Science. (We're members.) As a passenger, I had time to finish Hat 4 which I had started yesterday. We drove this time instead of taking the train. We got all the way to Boston, braved the traffic, and found our way to M.O.S. Then --- the dreaded sign --- "PARKING LOT FULL". Ugh. The suggested alternate parking was blocks away in some Mall. We tried but never found the Mall and finally gave up. I won't even mention the big Tundra extended cab pick-up truck that did TWO U-TURNS in front of us. Nope, won't even mention those nuts from NH. Well, we gave up and turned home. The Museum would have been a crowded shoulder-to-shoulder nightmare, which is just too hard for me to endure. (Enjoying would have been out of the question.)

Had lunch at P.F. Chang's in Dedham. LOVE that place! Dropped by the biggest sundial I've ever seen (Foxboro, MA) while there was still some actual sunlight. Home again, home again, jiggety jig.

Hat 4 is the purple pixie hat with the long braid that appears in the slide show. Lion Brand Wool-Ease. I may have enough of the purple left for a standard simple cap. Or maybe the remainder will have to be contrast for some other hat.

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Crochet Basic Roll-Brimmed Hat

From 310 Hats


Worsted weight yarn
I hook (5 mm)
Marker


  • Chain 2
  • 6 sc in 2nd chain from hook. Place marker in last stitch.
  • 2 sc in each sc (12). Move marker.
  • (1 sc in first stitch, 2 sc in next stitch), repeat around (18 sc). Move marker.
  • (2 sc in each of first 2 sts, 2 sc in next stitch), repeat around (24 sc). Move marker.
  • (3 sc in ea of first 3 sts, 2 sc in next stitch), repeat around (30 sc). Move marker.
  • Continue in this manner for 13 or 14 rounds (increasing the number of scs before the increase by 1 each round) until your radius is about 3", diameter about 6", and circumference about 18". (78 scs or 84 scs). This should make a nice flat disc, which is the hat top.
  • Work even without increasing. It will start making a bowl shape. Continue even until the depth is about 6". It needs to be long enough and and big enough around to cover a Kindergarten-age child's head and ears.
  • To create a rolled brim, increase the stitches by 50%: (1 sc, 2 sc in next stitch) repeat around.
  • Work a few rounds even.
  • Slip stitch around to give a nice tight, neat edge.
  • Cut yarn. Work in ends.
  • If the hat is too "airy", you can weave colored yarns through the stitch spaces. Colored yarns will be very decorative.

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