I've never written a pattern before, so please to forgive. I learned this technique from Jenny Wistrom (who taught me how to make hats and is a super crafty lady), when she stumbled upon it by mistake.
I made an awesome hat last week as a thank you to my producer. I'm going to try and write the pattern here for you guys. Never done this before, so it'll be rough.
I used Rowan Romance and size 10 needles.
Cast on 72 stitches in the round. Join and knit three rounds.
Fourth Round: K2Tog, k10, k2tog, k the rest of the round
Fifth: k2tog, k9, k2tog, k the rest of the round
Sixth: k2tog, k8, k2tog, k the rest of the round
Seventh: k2tog, k7, k2tog, k the rest of the round
Eighth: k2tog, k6, k2tog, k the rest of the round
Ninth: k2tog, k5, k2tog, k the rest of the round
You should now have sixty stitches. The decreasing has *hopefully* made a cute little bunchy uppy area, where you can put a crochet flower.
Bunchy uppy area can be seen on the right.
Anyway, knit to desired length, then decrease as follows:
*K10, K 2 tog, repeat from * for entire round.
*K 9, K 2 tog, repeat from * for entire round.
*K8, K 2 tog, repeat from * for entire round.
*K 7, k 2 tog, repeat from * for entire round.
*K 6, k 2 tog, " " " "
*K 5, k 2 tog, " " " "
*K 4, k 2 tog, " " " "
*K 3, k 2 tog, " " " "
*K 2, k 2 tog, " " " "
*K 1, k 2 tog, " " " "
You may have to transfer to double pointed needles at some point, or you can just thread the yarn through the top stitches and pull tight to close, around K4, k2tog or so.
I wish I could write a pattern for the flower, but I made it up as I went along, and don't really remember what I did. I know that I started a granny square and did one round of granny square HDCs, and then I guess I did a pattern of *SC, HDC, TC, TC, HDC, SC, Slip stitch*, in every "hole" of the granny square. If that makes sense. Which it doesn't.
Wearing the hat pulled down and the flower to the side, it's very Daisy Buchanan.
Whew! That kind of took me all morning.
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