Fitting My Face

My head is 22.5 inches; 10% negative ease gets me 20.25. At my 7 stitches per inch, that’s 142 stitches, which is my target after the increases. 2/3 of 142 is 93.

Going to make the math easy on myself and round up, casting on 96, increasing to 144 for the face.

Nose

The instructions for the nose are not specifically too good. Obviously, it should say “work” or “rib” in pattern instead of “knit.”

The first row after the tip of the nose doesn’t instruct you to reset MR. On a guess, I moved it 4 stitches in as we had on previous rows.

I made the mistake of doing German short rows rather than wraps, but that means they stacked when the rows got wider. Not ideal, but my fault, not the pattern’s.

Chin

I was smart enough to switch to shadow wraps for the short row turns in the chin section. Much better.

My chin parabola is about 2.25 inches.

Neck

124 / 8 = 15.5 Actually, I have 125 sts, which is weird. Messed up somewhere. And that made finishing decreases at the chin an adventure. Luckily ribbing is so forgiving.

87 stitches around the neck.

Bib

I don’t want a big bib; just enough to let the mask sit comfortably around the transition from neck to shoulders. So worked 2 complete sets of increases.

Bind-Off

At the bottom, I used stretchy Russian bind-off in pattern.

The top was more problematic: I didn’t like the short roll the few initial rounds of stockinette did, so I just sewed it down to the ribbing. Not as stretchy as I would like, but it looks good.