Thursday, February 18, 2010

Geek hat


I recently had the very enjoyable experience of knitting a hat on commission. A friend liked my robot hat and wanted a duplicate for her husband, until we started talking about other possibilities. This is the design we worked out, using
You can see the round ends -- it also shows you where to start reading, if you can read bits. Probably I should have done the green lines jogless, but that's not a technique I've used much.

Here's the hat flat:


I would make a few changes if I were to do this again. I'd either eliminate the plain rounds between the ribbing & the green line so it could be worn with the ribbing down, or I'd put in a fold line. I think the turnup isn't crisp enough. And if I did plan for a turned up ribbing I'd use one or two more plain black rounds, because the ribbing is just slightly longer than the black stockinette section as it stands.

Here's the hat with the ribbing down -- sadly droopy looking.

Much better, but it would be nice to see the bottom green line.

I used June Hiatt's Double Needle Cast-on (p. 133 in Principles of Knitting) which was pesky to do but just wonderful once finished. There's no constriction in the lower edge at all. I'll be using this on my next pair of top-down socks for sure.

3 comments:

Caroline M said...

I started a hat with a tubular cast on, it did look decent especially when I'd done it three times because I can't count to 44.

I like the green, I once had a Toshiba laptop with orange lettering (shows my age doesn't?)

Leigh said...

I'm very impressed with your hats. This one is especially clever! Also impressed that you've done a pi are squared shawl. That's on my someday to-do list.

Tanya said...

This one is a winner, Cynthia. Fellow Geeks at his office are properly envious.