Black Bucket too big
July 23rd, 2004
Well, as I was working on the crown last night I had to come to terms with the fact that my black bucket hat is WAY too big. I mean, I don’t even think washing it will save it. I had my DH take a pic of it on my for posterity. It looks like a witches hat.
I am noticing that I have trouble with gauge. I learned to knit Elizabeth Zimmerman style, and never used a pattern until a few months ago. I am really having trouble matching the gauge on the pattern with reality-gauge. I am going to try figuring it out myself. I measured the circumfrance of my head, 22″. My yarn knits up at 4 stitches an inch. So the part of the hat that fits snugly around my head should be 88 stitches around. The brim is has about 25% more stitches than the “head”(according to the pattern). So I figure I should cast on 110 stitches.
I hope I am getting the math right. We’ll see what happens.
On another topic, you will notice that I changed my site a bit. I was too lazy to come up with my own style, so I based it on a stylesheet created for a Wordpress style competition.
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