Comments for JJCrochet

Comment on Blog by Monica

Monica — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 06:50:52 +0000

You are both very welcome! I’m new to posting on Ravelry, and I am finding everyone’s specific details very helpful when trying to figure out a new pattern. So I thought I should post my specific details as well. I posted the pics of my completed hat on Ravelry if you want to check them out. My name is MonicaB1979.

Thanks again for coming up with this Jayna!

Comment on Blog by jayna

jayna — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 21:22:26 +0000

Monica, you are BRILLIANT – Thank you for figuring this out!

Comment on Blog by jayna

jayna — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 21:21:59 +0000

Hi Marge! I’m so glad you got to try out the pattern and doubling the yarn and using smaller needles sounds like it would knit just as good of a hat without having to buy new yearn – very creative of you. Hope things are going well with you – I’m anxiously awaiting your original patterns.

Comment on Blog by Dayna

Dayna — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:22:04 +0000

Hi Jayna
This is a great hat, and I am also making it right now in the round, following the instructions from Monica (thanks to Monica for figuring that out!) I actually already knitted this in the round the first time without the revised part from Monica and came out with a completely new and different pattern that looked really cool. It came out like a kind of twisted ribbing pattern. I madeit for my daughter and its very cute on her. Anyways, great hat, and thanks for the pattern!!

Comment on Blog by Marge

Marge — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:38:43 +0000

Hi Jayna,
After the knitting group the other night I looked up the pattern and made it over the weekend. Love the pattern. Didn’t have any Thick & Quick and to avoid going to the knitting store again I doubled the stitch count and used #8 needles and made a hat with what I had available. You are so talented in looking at something and coming up with patterns. Keep up the good work and have a good semester.

Comment on Blog by Monica

Monica — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 01:21:48 +0000

Im not an expert knitter, but me and my friend cracked the “in the round” code.

Cast on 48
do 4×4 as instructed.
Now here is where it gets tricky:
Mark your first stitch with a marker and k2 p2 around. (ending in p2)
Start next row (in the round means next stitch) p1, k2, p2 around till last stitch, and then p1. and then repeat. next row would start with K2.

This is how i wrote it down to help me:
k k p p k k p p
p k k p p k k p
k k p p k k p p
p k k p p k k p
you can see how the K’s and p’s line up, and the other verticals are every other as the should be.

You just need to know when you are going to have 3 purls next to each other, or just 1 purl.

Comment on Blog by Monica

Monica — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 22:36:49 +0000

Well…I tried in the round, and the instructions above do not work. Usually when you are in the round, the next row needs to be reversed. If anyone figures this one out let me know, because right now my brain isnt figuring it out!

Comment on Blog by Bri

Bri — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:35:06 +0000

Oh thank you that makes perfect sense. Ill give it a try and let you know.

Comment on Blog by jayna

jayna — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 05:01:13 +0000

Hi Bri! Since I’m a fairly new knitter as well, I don’t know much about knitting in the round, but I will try to help. I image it’s definitely possible to use circular needles for the hat, I’m just not sure I’d know the best way to do it. Perhaps someone who has a little more knitting experience could help…
If I had to *guess* how to knit this in the round (and I think this makes sense), this is what I’d say: The 4×4 ribbing would still be the same. To begin the mistake ribbing portion of that hat, I would p2tog at the end of the round when your ribbing measures 2 inches. This will give you an odd number of stitches to work the hat body. Then, you’d just *k2,p2* around for every round. With the odd number of stitches, you’ll still achieve the same “shift” you would get knitting the mistake rib on on straight needles, but because you have an odd number of stitches, instead of knitting a perfectly aligned 2×2 ribbing, you’ll knit a mistake ribbing pattern. Did that make sense at all? Ha, I may have made it more confusing. Let me know if that works out for you. Happy knitting!

Comment on Blog by Bri

Bri — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:59:48 +0000

Hi Jayna, Can this be done in the round. And how much different would it be. I am fairly new to knitting and really want to try this hat.

Thank you,
Bri