Hat 41 is knit from Lion Brand's Jiffy yarn in a color called "Kitty Hawk". It's soft, it's pretty, it's kid-friendly, but I don't know what it has to do with flight or North Carolina in general or Kitty Hawk, NC. Maybe there's white sand with green and pink speckles on Kitty Hawk's beaches. Maybe it's named for some Kitty Hawk other than North Carolina's Kitty Hawk. Maybe it's just a random name. Maybe some day I'll find out.
(I note that most of the Jiffy colors are city names.)
Hat 41: diagonal rib 2 x 2 on 55 stitches, 6 mm needles, stockinette, and pie wedge top.
Question for D in California ---- Why does 2x2 diagonal rib angle one way but 3 x 3 diagonal rib angles the other way if they're both on the same number of stitches? This hat started out with 3 x 3 rib but I had the dreaded TWIST ON FIRST ROW which I didn't discover until after 6 rows. (Argh.) When I unknit it all and cast on again, I did 2x2 rib instead of 3x3. I notice that the two angle differently. Why is that, mathematically speaking?
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You did 55 stitches both times?
ReplyDelete2x2 rib you had 4n-1 stitches, so each time you "borrowed" one stitch from the next round so it slants one way.
3x3 rib you had 6n+1 stitches, so you had one "extra" stitch each round, which you then put in the next round ( so to speak )
It's the same as if you were knitting flat, actually.
6n-1 ( Usually written as multiples of 6 plus 5 ) will slant one way, 6n + 1 The other.
Yes? No? Need pictures?
I think I get it but pictures would help if you have a scanner or a means of easily drawing them for blog-reading. It really is surprising that on 55 stitches the 2x2 rib slants one way and the 3x3 rib slants the other way. What would 4x4 rib do? 5x5? Is it a simple matter of evens slant one way and odds slant the other?
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