[Nfb-krafters-korner] So what is on your needles?

[Deborah Armstrong]

Well knitting is about all I'm doing craft-wise now that the long 
commute and the job has started back up!


I'm making a hat, but I'm using a technique I invented myself which is 
real mindless.


I cast on one stitch and do an increase that doesn't leave a hole. Can't 
remember the name of that increase. But it leaves a pearl bump on the 
right side.


When the base of the triangle is 20 inches or so wide--head sized, I 
start knitting in the round. I've done this all on circs.


When it's hat-sized,I loosely bind off.


Then I sew the open part of the hat together, except before where the 
part I knit in the round begins, I leave a hole for stuffing my long 
pony-tail through.


Next, to finish it off, I use my fingers to make a separate chain of 
yarn, like the crochet chain stitch. Using a tapestry needle I sew the 
chain along the brim of the hat to give it more strength.


Then I make a shorter chain and sew it over the hole I made for the 
pony-tail so it feels like a large, reinforced buttonhole.


I like this project because even if people are chatting at me I don't 
need to think or count stitches!





On 9/24/2016 8:51 AM, Becky Frankeberger via Nfb-krafters-korner wrote:
> So tell us what is on your needles this lovely fall day.
>
> I just got finished with two baby cocoons, a belt pack for a sell phone and
> other du dads, giggle. I am working on a cane holder you slip on your belt.
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