[Nfb-krafters-korner] FW: help with decreasing the crown of a hat?

Wed Sep 24 18:26:46 UTC 2014

Portia;
I read the imfo again and like I said, the gaps are staggered.  
Move 2 to 1 in each section  knit the 4 doubles, knit all pegs and pass empty pegs.
Do the same with 4 to 3,  and next round, 6 to 5.
If you want, you can do it one or two more times since you are doing a larger hat.  

I usually gather all stitches on a 36 peg loom.

Thread working yarn from bottom to top and bring it to the inside of loom, on all 36+ stitches and then back again through peg 1.

Take all stitches off pegs.

Gathering
Tighten stitches, a few at a time, going from below the working yarn.   The working yarn is the last thing you want to pull.   Go around from below the working yarn to the tail of your working yarn, a few times, getting rid of slack yarn between stitches.  The crown will tighten, each time you go around.  

When tightened, give yourself10 or 12 inches of yarn and cut off the rest.  Bring working yarn to inside  of hat.  Turn hat inside out and make  stitches through the gathered top.  Many use a crisscross method.  Knot your yarn and thread down through multiple stitches of your hat.
Turn right side out after cutting working yarn.

Terry P.

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Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] help with decreasing the crown of a hat?

Portia,
I believe Terry is talking about a beanie class I taught.  It is a pattern by Kristin Mangus of Good knit kisses.  
In the section that I am including below, She is using a 24 peg loom for a baby hat.  You will have to work out your pegs for a larger loom.  She basically looks at the loom in 4 sections.  Maybe this will help.

15.We are going to divide our loom visually into 4 sections (6 pegs in each section for a 24 peg loom). In round 1 of this section we will move the 2nd peg loop over to the 1st peg.  Do not KO at this time.  Move to the next section and do this again. Repeat 2 more times.  Now KO.  Wrap all remaining pegs again & KO. This completes hat Row 27. (You should have 20 pegs remaining).
16.Now take peg 4 over to peg 3 and wait to KO.  Repeat for all 4 sections.
KO all four pegs.  Wrap all remaining pegs & KO. This complete Row 28. (You should have 16 pegs remaining).
17.Now take peg 6 over to peg 5 and wait to KO.  Repeat for all 4 sections.
KO all four pegs.  Wrap all remaining pegs & KO.  This complete Row 29. (You should have 12 pegs remaining).
18. CAST OFF with draw string method.  

Jill
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To: Powers, Terry (NIH/NCI) [E]; 'List for blind crafters and artists'
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] help with decreasing the crown of a hat?

hmm!
 Thanks so much I will wait to hear from her.

 I recently lost a lot of my email addresses so I will wait to hear from her to respond back.

 or if anybody else has any ideas, please share them.

 Portia

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