This calculator charts a basic hat with a fairly flat top knit from the top down. Some details associated with knitting the basic hat are discussed in Top Down Spiral Hat. The crown is shaped with "spiral" type increases. The directions to knit the hat also describe how to knit single thickness earflaps and knit on the idiot cord ties and trim, providing links with further details.
If you want a slightly different hat, the instructions also suggest what you should do if you'd like a similar hat but with a ribbed or rolled hem.
Materials:
- About 50-100 grams of yarn; the exact amount required depends on the gauge of the stitches.
- 1 set of double pointed needles (DPNs) in diameter appropriate for yarn. (I prefer sets with 5 needles for this hat.)
- Circular or double pointed needles one or two diameter sizes smaller than the DPNs you use for the main part of the hat.
- (Optional) Circular needles in same diameter as DPNs. (I switch to my Denise adjustables.)
- Tapestry needle.
- Some waste yarn.
Abbreviations:
kfb = knit into front and back of stitch. (See Knit twice into same stitch.)
Knitting Directions:
1. You will want to use some method to seal the short rows, but I don't discuss this when describing the hat pattern. My current favorite method is "yarn over short rows", which I describe here. You can also wrap and turn, as described here.
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Pingback by The Knitting Fiend » Blog Archive » Ear Flap Hat Illustrated (291 comments.) — 11/9/2005 @ 8:51 am
Man, I love your calculators!!!
Comment by Elaine (9 comments.) — 11/9/2005 @ 3:30 pm
Thanks. I hope they help people who are math averse learn to feel more comfortable designing. I know lots of people have ideas for what they’d like to do, but they are afraid of figuring out shaping.
Comment by lucia — 11/9/2005 @ 3:35 pm
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Pingback by matchedThe Knitting Fiend » Blog Archive » ( comments.) — 12/31/2005 @ 10:04 am
Dear Lucia,
Just wanted to say thank you for posting this pattern and this calculator. I’m a new mom and new knitter, and just last week conquered my fear of dpns. This is my first finished project on them, with a cotton/angora hat for the kiddo. It’s late, and I just finished, so we’ll see how it fits him tomorrow.
Thank you again!!
Comment by Ginny (1 comments.) — 3/7/2006 @ 10:24 pm
Hello.
The hat is interesting to me. I’d like to know how to do ear flaps. Thank you for your willingness to custom calculate! I am grateful! Have a wonderful day.
Sam
Comment by Sam (2 comments.) — 9/3/2006 @ 1:26 pm
Thanks for the pattern. I just left a message and didn’t realize that the pattern is above the area to post. Silly me. It looks like a nice pattern. I look forward to knitting it!
Comment by Sam (2 comments.) — 9/3/2006 @ 1:30 pm
thank you lots
Comment by brad hoffman (0 comments.) — 2/10/2007 @ 2:22 pm
It was amazing to find a hat in garter stitch knitted from the top down . !!! I am having an awful time really ,deciding to knit a slip over style knit from top to base because of salvaging the top of front of a “being knitted” norwegian style sweater ,the base of the front which i removed to make a hat and the middle part made a bag leaving the upper part with neck part completed The only solution was to knit the rest as a slip over style garmentin garter stitch from base of what was left of the top of front downwards It has been dreadful -The knitting of the original frontof the sweater did not seem good enough you see. The slip ove r seems worse than the knitting of the whole norwegian style sweater which i have completed Garter stitch might not seem as different upside down as stocking sttch but if there was any spare wool i woud have knitted a garter stitch hat but it might have looked different if it was knitted from base to top so thsat was a worry Anyway i decided to knit the slipoverlonge r to us e up the spare wool and that is an effort in stripey design because there is insufficient of the main colour so i wish i ha d found your website sooner about how to knit a hat from top to base It came up on a search and the search said garter stitch spreads - and those seemed to be the words of a fellow -sufferer .
Comment by Maureen (0 comments.) — 3/22/2007 @ 6:26 am
Help! I made the hat, did my ribbing, and bound off. But it seems to me that binding off at the bottom of the hat doesn’t make sense - the bound-off edge is tighter than the ribbing. Did I do something wrong, or is it supposed to be that way?
Comment by Karen Vogel (1 comments.) — 10/14/2007 @ 6:10 pm
Karen- When you are binding off, to make a looser bind off you can either A. use larger needles to bind off or B. Do this stretchy bind off: Knit the first stitch, knit the second stitch and then knit those two together (as if it were a ssk), then keep going knit the 3rd stitch and then knit the two stitches on the right needle together, etc etc until you have finished your bind off. Feel free to e-mail me if you have any questions
lovemyryley@aol.com
Comment by Kim (0 comments.) — 11/11/2007 @ 8:36 am
Pretty impressive. I love to knit hats top down and I found your site through a web search. Can’t wait to start.
Linda Shelhamer
Billings, MT
www. montanamadetradingpost.com/SandwichCreativity/
Comment by Linda Shelhamer — 12/16/2007 @ 1:53 pm