After pretty much finishing the Liz Lemon hat, and then ripping it all the way back and casting on again, I buckled down and finished the second version much more quickly.
First, another look at the original:
And now my final version, finished for real and gifted to the recipient, I won’t be ripping this one back, I promise!
(I clone stamped out some schmutz on the board which was visually distracting. I’m pretty sure you can’t even tell where. The key to successful use of the clone stamp tool is subtlety.)
I think the decreases look kind of neat on the inside.
At the top I did the same sort of decrease I use on 2×2 ribbing. The pattern is divided into two groups – purls and knits. I subdivide these into two more groups each; odds and evens.
Round 1: Decrease one stitch in each purl/odd column.
Round 2: Decrease one stitch in each knit/odd column.
Round 3: Decrease one stitch in each purl/even column.
Round 4: Decrease one stitch in each knit/even column.
Much better.
And here’s a look at that (corrected) turning row.
This is kind of hard to explain if you’ve never seen one before. But the next time you knit a hat with a brim, knit one full round after the cuff, but before you start the body. It makes the brim flip up just right.
Wow! Watching you make all these lovelies off a few stills gives me hope that someday, I’ll actually make myself Cameron Diaz’s cabled sweater from “The Holiday”!!
Heh. That is similar to the decrease method I use on 2×2 rib knit hats. I put one work even round between each of the decreasing rounds, then do rounds of k2tog until there are 6 – 8 stitches left. Great minds, etc.
Now that you have made the hat and the scarf, are you going to knit the sweater ? ;^)
Excellent hat!
I’d been so distracted by the scarf that I hadn’t even noticed the sweater…
Yeah, how’s that scarf coming?
That is beautiful!
My husband and I have been in Tokyo for the last two weeks and I have been seeing “haramaki” in the stores here. Haramaki is a belly warmer and looks like a tube top that you wear on your stomach:
http://pingmag.jp/2007/01/15/haramaki-a-granny-item-made-fashionable/
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/02/haramaki-belly-warmer.php
I am so knitting one when I get home!
Very nice! How is the scarf coming? (We’re hard to appease lot, aren’t we? lol)