Friday, January 15, 2010

Cap with ripple cuff

Finished another pink Silenzio hat. It's a basic cap with a ripple Old Shale cuff border.

I bought five skeins of pink Silenzio and five of pumpkin orange Silenzio. Each cap has taken a little more than a skein. So, I don't have enough pink left for another cap. I don't think the pink and pumpkin will work well together. Maybe I'll try it when I only have a little pumpkin left.

To make this one, I made the Old Shale border and then thought "Uh oh, I have to do the rest of the cap in purl in order to make the cuff flip up and still look right." Ah, instead I turned the cap inside out and knit the rest of it. There's ONE little spot where I transition from cuff to cap that has a little hole from the turn. But no one is going to see it. The cuff is stitched to the cap at the three peaks of the ripples.

Next time I try this, however, I'll try doing the lace in purl instead of knit. Then I can just switch to knit for the cap without having to turn. Don't know if the lace will work well when it's purl-based but it's worth trying. I think I'll try it in less fuzzy yarn, however. In case it doesn't work, less fuzzy yarn will cooperate with the tedious "un-stitching" process.

I think the pumpkin colored yarn might make good hats for boys, so I don't know if I'll do any lace cuffs on the pumpkin hats.

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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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