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October 18, 2015
October 18, 2015

Basic Baby Hat

Project info
Basic Baby Hat by Heather Tucker
Knitting
Hat → Beanie, Toque
Theo
Modified 12 months to fit newborn
Needles & yarn
US 5 - 3.75 mm
Koigu Premium Merino (KPM)
0.38 skeins = 105.0 yards (96.0 meters), 19 grams
Ivory
White
EweKnit in Toronto, Ontario
December 27, 2013
Notes

I’m going to knit this free pattern at the 12 month size (cast on 84 stitches) with a size US5 needle for 2 reasons:

  • It’s the size of needle I used for the accompanying sweater (which will give visual constancy)

  • The hat calls for DK yarn and I’m working with fingering. That means I have to cast on more stitches (esp as I’m going down a needle size based on the recommendation) to get an equivalent to newborn size.

  • Newborn size is listed as 13″ circumference, 6″ high. My gauge with the Koigu yarn I intend to use, to match the sweater, on size 5 US needle is 13” in 2 inches (or 6.5 st per inch). To get 13” I’d need @ 85 stitches (13 x 6.5). Just so happens that the 12 month size recommends a cast on of 84 st. Close enough, I suspect.

18-10-2015

Pattern calls for DK yarn and 5.5 st per inch / 7.5 rows per inch. So far my vertical gague is working out…

On size 5 needle, do 8 rows of ribbing = 1 inch with my gauge. I did k1p1 because my sweater had single rib and I didn’t want it to clash with the hat’s proposed k2p2.

Need to get to 4.75” (going to stockinette after the first inch of ribbing). That means I need 3.75” in stockinette before beginning cap decreases. At a vertical stockinette gauge of 9 rows per inch (based on the sweater stockinette gauge - using the same yarn and needles), I need to do @34 rows. That worked well!

Kept to the vertical dimensions specified in the newborn hat since that’s the size I want to make (even though my stitch counts were modified to accommodate thinner yarn).

Took 19 g altogether.

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October 18, 2015
About this pattern
Basic Baby Hat
by Heather Tucker
from Mama's Stitchery Projects
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About this yarn
Premium Merino (KPM)
by Koigu
Fingering
100% Merino
175 yards / 50 grams

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  1. Totally inconsistent (dye sometimes runs, wool sometimes felts)
  2. Good stitch definition
  • Project created: October 17, 2015
  • Finished: October 18, 2015
  • Updated: December 27, 2016
  • Progress updates: 2 updates