Nepali hat coming along...
I think I'm figuring out how to recreate the Nepali style flat-top hat. To review, it's like the flat top hats that I've knitted (see below), but instead of knitting garter stitch (on a circular needle, knit one row, purl one row),
I'm knitting every row ending up with stockinette stitch all around, but knitting twice the length so I can fold the body in half and join the cast-on end with the top before starting on the flat top. I then end up with a thicker, two layered, stockinette stitch body for the hat.
The idea is to finish up with the 6 triangles on top, like the hats below, although the hat I got in Nepal has a flat stockinette stitch top that I guess is just circular and sewed onto the body. I'd like to find out how to just knit a flat top going in circles... decreasing in a spiral but keeping it completely flat. Any ideas?
I'm knitting every row ending up with stockinette stitch all around, but knitting twice the length so I can fold the body in half and join the cast-on end with the top before starting on the flat top. I then end up with a thicker, two layered, stockinette stitch body for the hat.
The idea is to finish up with the 6 triangles on top, like the hats below, although the hat I got in Nepal has a flat stockinette stitch top that I guess is just circular and sewed onto the body. I'd like to find out how to just knit a flat top going in circles... decreasing in a spiral but keeping it completely flat. Any ideas?
posted by Frank at
9:27 AM
4 Comments:
You know, in looking at the top of those hats, it seems to me that you would just knit a triangle and then pick up the stitches. I guess I would have to see one in person to see if that's what they did.
Well, you're right - the Nepali hat below looks like it might have been done on a machine - where they made a rectangular piece of stockinette fabric, cut a circle out of it, then sewed it to the inside of the brim (I wouldn't recommend this). If you wanted the same look, I'd make a rectangle, sew the rectangle into the brim, and then sew over the edges - some would be left over...
To do what you're suggesting - keeping it flat with spiral decreases would also work. Just evenly space the decreases, do the same decrease throughout and that's it. If you're hell bent on keeping it flat, stuff a thick/flat piece of fabric interface into the top (sew it in), then sew in a lining.
Good luck - I love the colors!
I was experimenting with a hat and found that when I did 3 rows of purl before starting the decreases, I got a flat top which made it look kind of like a pillbox hat. Search my blog for the Permutations hat.
i think you could seek advice at anna ziilboorg or elizabeth zimmermann who has a pill box hat recipe. good luck.
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