Hat craze

I've never been a sock knitter; my small projects of preference are hats and baby knits.  And fall, of course, is a fine time to think about hat knitting (and thus for designers, a fine time to think about creating some hat patterns).  I had noted the stitch pattern at left (from the Japanese book Knitting Patterns Book 250) back in the spring, and it struck me as something that could be adapted into an interesting hat.  I went so far as to work on adapting the leaf motif to fit within the limited number of rows possible on a hat (deciding on a sport weight yarn to get a few more rows in) and charting the crown decreases, and then shelved that project over the summer to work on other things.

 Non sono stata mai una maglierista dei calzini; i miei progetti piccoli preferiti sono i cappelli e le maglie dei bambini.   Certo che l'autunno e un bel periodo per pensare di lavorare a maglia dei cappelli!  Ho visto quello disegno (dal libro giapponese Knitting Patterns Book 250) nella primavera, e pensavo di usarlo per un cappello.

I went back to that hat project last week, but after a bit of swatching, I wasn't happy with the result, and returned to my Japanese stitch pattern books for more inspiration.  I found the second stitch pattern in the same book as the first, and the final one in the book Knitting Patterns Book 300.  I imagined using the second one in a top-down design, so I then started figuring out a series of crown increases that would segue nicely into the main stitch pattern. 

Sono ritornata la settimana scorsa a quello progetto del cappello; pero', dopo un po' di swatching, non ero contenta, e sono tornata ai miei libri di modelli giapponesi per l'inspirazione.   Ho trovato il  disegno secondo nello stesso libro come il primo, e l'ultimo nel libro Knitting Patterns Book 300.  Ho immaginato di usare il secondo in un modello top-down, quindi ho cominciato di calcolare gli aumenti,  i quali progredirebbero nel disegno proprio. 

This turned out to be a several-days-long process!  More on that later.
Diventava un processo di parecchi giorni!  Piu a piu tardi.

Comments

[Typesetter]

A swatche in italian is a "campione/i" or "imparaticcio/cci". Often "imparaticcio" is used when you are testing a new stitch, "campione" is the gaue swatch, but the two are rather interchangeable.

[connie]

I almost never knit hats. I find them so hard to fit. But those stitch patterns are lovely and if anyone can make a unique and knit-worthy hat, it's you. I'll be watching with baited breath :)

[connie]

whoops, I meant "bated" breath.

[Dawn]

I love all of those patterns, no matter what you use them for.