experiments in bright green
I shall be making a brimmed knit hat with some nice yarn, but haven't found a pattern I liked, at least wasn't sure enough about without some initial knitting to test it out. I tried two different approaches to making a brim on a knit hat. The first one, I knit a small loop at the start at the outside of the brim and then knit into the center. When I got to the area of a hat band, I started a further experiment by knitting a brioche stitch to give it a different look. Then finish it off with not quite enough vertical and a flat top. My sister had some wire around, so I could even get the wire into it ending with a big brim without all that much yarn used. I also made it big enough for that sister, but she didn't really want it because it's just too brightly green.
Next, I made a hat with a brim like in a pattern I didn't really believe would work. It doubles the stitches at the start of the brim and then goes along in garter to the end. With this one, I tried a bit of a harder brioche stitch for the hatband. I'm still not entirely certain I got the stitch done correctly. The instructions are dead set to express things in the most confusing way possible, of the same flavor as using a yarn forward to get a yarn over because once you start knitting the next stitch you'll have to bring the yarn over to get it in the right position to knit. I do not like instructions that have to be expressed differently based on what the next stitch will be.
This one nearly finished off the yarn with the brim. It took nearly twice as much for a much smaller brim, but it's the one that was liked best and is most like the model hat. If I estimated the yarn used for this correctly, there should be enough of the nice yarn for a similar hat.
Next, I made a hat with a brim like in a pattern I didn't really believe would work. It doubles the stitches at the start of the brim and then goes along in garter to the end. With this one, I tried a bit of a harder brioche stitch for the hatband. I'm still not entirely certain I got the stitch done correctly. The instructions are dead set to express things in the most confusing way possible, of the same flavor as using a yarn forward to get a yarn over because once you start knitting the next stitch you'll have to bring the yarn over to get it in the right position to knit. I do not like instructions that have to be expressed differently based on what the next stitch will be.
This one nearly finished off the yarn with the brim. It took nearly twice as much for a much smaller brim, but it's the one that was liked best and is most like the model hat. If I estimated the yarn used for this correctly, there should be enough of the nice yarn for a similar hat.