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eryn_ spun me some yarn-- purple mix, red mix, and cream-colored. There were three balls of about the same size, and here's what I did with one of them:
The bottom of a beret:
The top of a beret:
The back of a beret:
And the front:
It was REALLY awesome to work with yarn and know that someone actually MADE that yarn, thinking about it the whole time.
I meant to take a pic of the leftover yarn, but I can't find the leftovers-- I had a couple of pieces left over, totaling under 2 feet. In fact, I had to spit-splice the wool for the bindoff- you can see in the front pic where the edge changes color from light blue to purple just over the middle of my eyebrow. That's where I spliced in another foot of yarn out of a tail end from elsewhere in the hat.
Technical notes:
This was knit to maximize the yarn usage, without doing a top-down hat, which I hate (cause of the increases):
Do a provisional cast on to a crocheted chain, 96 stitches. Place marker every 16 stitches. I used a size 10 needle for this.
Knit back and forth, decreasing before and after each marker on the knit rows and purling every stitch on the purl rows. When you have 6 stitches remaining, bind off, cut about a foot of yarn, and sew up the seam to make the top of your hat (which is 6-sided).
Undo the provisional cast on and slip the stitches onto a 20" circular. Unwind the OTHER end of your yarn, not the end you are going to knit with, measure 3 yards, and put a clip or something at that three-yard point, because that's where you start binding off, when you have that much yarn left. (Note: I left 2 yards, and that's why my yarn has a splice. Too short!)
Knit furiously round and round on your hat until you have about 3" knitted, then figure you ought to do some kind of ribbing and narrowing of the hat. For one round, do this: *knit 3, purl 1, purl 2 together* and repeat from *. This takes your 96 stitches down to 80.
Do this K3 P2 ribbing for a couple of inches, then switch to smaller needles (I used 7s) and on the next round do *K1, K2tog, P2* for a round; this gives you 64 stitches. Knit in K2 P2 ribbing until you reach your marker and then bind off in pattern. Weave in ends and things.
eryn_ spun me some yarn-- purple mix, red mix, and cream-colored. There were three balls of about the same size, and here's what I did with one of them:The bottom of a beret:
The top of a beret:
The back of a beret:
And the front:
It was REALLY awesome to work with yarn and know that someone actually MADE that yarn, thinking about it the whole time.
I meant to take a pic of the leftover yarn, but I can't find the leftovers-- I had a couple of pieces left over, totaling under 2 feet. In fact, I had to spit-splice the wool for the bindoff- you can see in the front pic where the edge changes color from light blue to purple just over the middle of my eyebrow. That's where I spliced in another foot of yarn out of a tail end from elsewhere in the hat.
Technical notes:
This was knit to maximize the yarn usage, without doing a top-down hat, which I hate (cause of the increases):
Do a provisional cast on to a crocheted chain, 96 stitches. Place marker every 16 stitches. I used a size 10 needle for this.
Knit back and forth, decreasing before and after each marker on the knit rows and purling every stitch on the purl rows. When you have 6 stitches remaining, bind off, cut about a foot of yarn, and sew up the seam to make the top of your hat (which is 6-sided).
Undo the provisional cast on and slip the stitches onto a 20" circular. Unwind the OTHER end of your yarn, not the end you are going to knit with, measure 3 yards, and put a clip or something at that three-yard point, because that's where you start binding off, when you have that much yarn left. (Note: I left 2 yards, and that's why my yarn has a splice. Too short!)
Knit furiously round and round on your hat until you have about 3" knitted, then figure you ought to do some kind of ribbing and narrowing of the hat. For one round, do this: *knit 3, purl 1, purl 2 together* and repeat from *. This takes your 96 stitches down to 80.
Do this K3 P2 ribbing for a couple of inches, then switch to smaller needles (I used 7s) and on the next round do *K1, K2tog, P2* for a round; this gives you 64 stitches. Knit in K2 P2 ribbing until you reach your marker and then bind off in pattern. Weave in ends and things.
