{"id":50,"date":"2004-03-10T17:47:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-10T21:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=50"},"modified":"2008-04-06T12:45:23","modified_gmt":"2008-04-06T16:45:23","slug":"it-is-easy-being-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=50","title":{"rendered":"It IS easy being green!"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>I decided to quit waffling, already, and finish the second hat. I didn’t give it a point like the boob hat had, and when I screwed up a stitch finishing the crown in the My Gym waiting room, I thought, “eh, she’ll never know” and kept knitting. It turned out better than it looked like it was going to in the first picture. In fact, she loved it, as you can see. Sometimes you shouldn’t overthink things.<\/p>\n

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\nFor those who care about such things:
\n1 skein kureyon
\nsize 9 16″ circular and double-pointed needles.
\nLong-tail cast-on.
\nOn circular needles, co 88 stitches. Place marker at beginning of row.
\nKnit in the round for about 4 1\/2 to 5 inches.
\nTo decrease:
\nrow 1: From marker, *k9, k2tog* repeating * to end of row.
\nrow 2: knit
\nrow 3: *k8, k2tog* repeating * to end of row.
\nrow 4: knit
\nrow 5: *k7, k2tog* repeating * to end of row.
\nrow 6: knit
\nSwitch to double-pointed needles when the work gets too small.
\nKeep repeating this pattern until you’re down to, like, 32 stitches or so. Then omit the plain knit row and just keep up the decrease pattern, otherwise you’ll get down to 4 stitches and have a boob point. Unless that’s your thang.
\nWhen you’re down to 8 stitches (or 4, to taste) using yarn needle, pull end of yarn through remaining stitches and weave in ends. (Or cheat like me and knot it).<\/p>\n

FYI, I have a 22 inch head, so you can figure that with 88 stitches, your gauge is probably going to be about 4 stitches to an inch.
\n(2008 note – at the time I wrote this pattern, I was a tight knitter. You might want to pop down to a size 8 needle.)<\/i><\/p>\n

Math AND fashion! It’s the ultimate geek girl craft!
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I decided to quit waffling, already, and finish the second hat. I didn’t give it a point like the boob hat had, and when I screwed up a stitch finishing the crown in the My Gym waiting room, I thought, “eh, she’ll never know” and kept knitting. It turned out better than it looked like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,13],"tags":[5,24,11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}