Late last night I finished the little man’s hat! It fits just as I wanted it too, but the top is a little bunchy for my tastes…probably the way that I did the decreases at the very top I would imagine. Pictures to come later so you’ll see what I mean. I started the decreases at 4.5in by doing a k2tog after every 7th stitch. Then I did a knit row, then the next row I k2tog after every 6. (which btw didn’t work totally out with my stitch #s but I just rolled with it). I followed this way of decreasing until about the 3st then decrease row….then I decreased every row because after trying it on the little man, I thought it would get too long if I continued to add in a knit row. I will probably make another one and try some new ideas. Like I just went down an inch from the actual size of his head when doing this one…instead I am going to figure the number by percentage instead (like socks…usually you take the numbers down 20% from the circ of the ball of your foot). Also, I might stop at 4 or so inches and try the decreases to see if I can get a smoother top. I’m sure that I could look all this up and find out how to do it properly, but so far I am having fun just figuring it out myself.
And in other happy news…I found the yardage info for my handspun so I don’t have to remeasure it! Yay! It seems that the sneaky sneaky cats stole it off the work table while the yarn was modeling for me. *shakes fist at cats* Punks! =)