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- Approx 2 medium\/large sized T-shirt’s worth of “yarn” in contrasting, festive colours<\/li>\n
- 20mm diameter knitting swords (this is knit flat, but easy enough to translate to DPNs\/circulars if you have ’em)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Making the yarn<\/h3>\n
Starting at the bottom hem of the T-shirt, I cut it into a continuous strip of material about 10-20mm (~1\/2-3\/4 inch) wide.\u00a0 With my arm through the neck hole and hand sticking out of the “bottom” of the shirt, I was able to quite effectively continuously cut the strip while rotating the shirt on my arm.\u00a0 Stopping when I reached the sleeves.<\/p>\n
Accuracy wasn’t really the order of the day – the width was a little variable and I don’t recall how long the “yarn” actually ended up!<\/p>\n
Using the yarn<\/h3>\n
I recommend knitting with two contrasting “yarns” at once for variegation and strength.<\/strong><\/p>\n
I first made the hat with one strip of yarn and made stripes by switching between the green and red at intervals.\u00a0 This is the one I posted in the blog here<\/a>.\u00a0 After a couple of days wear, it became obvious just how old the fabric was – it had lost it’s integrity and stretched out of shape very quickly.\u00a0 I unravelled the lot, and did the hat again, this time knitting with both red and green strand at the same time.<\/p>\n
It created a the much denser and more visually pleasing effect in the pictures here.\u00a0 It’s currently holding it’s shape ok!<\/p>\n
Run out of “yarn”?<\/strong><\/p>\n
Don’t worry, just knot a new piece on and continue.\u00a0 This happened a couple of times (like I say above, no idea how long the yarns were, just chopped those shirts up and cracked on!).\u00a0 The rough and ready feel to the hat I think is cool \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
Sizing<\/h2>\n
The pattern described fits my head ok.\u00a0 I’m roughly 57-58cm (hat sizes UK 7 1\/8, US 7 1\/4).\u00a0 It stretches a bit.\u00a0 Adjust as you see fit.\u00a0 It’s so quick to knit that you can undo and reknit in no time to adjust.<\/p>\n
One note is that I have no hair!\u00a0 It might require another one or two rows before starting to reduce to make sure it has enough depth for those more folicularly blessed.<\/p>\n
Go!<\/h2>\n
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- Cast On 24 stitches (I used standard LongTail, seems stretchy enough).<\/li>\n
- Knit Row<\/li>\n
- Purl Row<\/li>\n
- Repeat 2. and 3.<\/li>\n
- Repeat 2. and 3.<\/li>\n
- (Repeat 2. and 3. again as many times as you want to adjust depth).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
Symmetric reduction<\/h5>\n
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- [k6, k2tog] * 3 (21 sts)<\/li>\n
- Purl<\/li>\n
- [k5, k2tog] * 3 (18 sts)<\/li>\n
- Purl<\/li>\n
- [k4, k2tog] * 3 (15 sts)<\/li>\n
- Purl<\/li>\n
- [k3, k2tog] * 3 (12 sts)<\/li>\n
- Purl<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
Asymmetric reduction<\/h5>\n
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- k4, [k2tog] * 2, k4 (10 sts)<\/li>\n
- Purl<\/li>\n
- k3, [k2tog] * 2, k3 (8 sts)<\/li>\n
- Purl<\/li>\n
- k2, [k2tog] * 2, k2 (6 sts)<\/li>\n
- Purl<\/li>\n
- k1, [k2tog] * 2, k1 (4 sts)<\/li>\n
- Knit<\/li>\n
- Purl<\/li>\n
- Repeat 8. and 9.<\/li>\n
- Optional: repeat 10. as many times as you’d like if you want the “spike” longer.\u00a0 Mine was just one.<\/li>\n
- Bind Off (just did a standard knit bind-off), do not cut the working end.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
Finishing<\/h5>\n
You will now have a weird looking asymmetric triangle.\u00a0 Time to turn it into a weird looking cone!<\/p>\n
You want a nice long working end from the bind-off, especially if you want the “streamer” coming out of the top (this was a lucky chance and I prefer it to a bobble or suchlike!).<\/p>\n
If using double-stranded yarn, choose which one you will use to close the hat (and be the streamer if you want it) and weave the other one into the bound-off edge to secure.<\/p>\n
Using your chosen length of yarn from the bind-off, mattress stitch the sides together from bottom to top of the hat to form the hat and it’s spike.\u00a0 I used my fingers to pass the yarn through the stitches.\u00a0 Secure the end of the yarn by knotting it back on itself.\u00a0 Leave a streamer if you like.\u00a0 I like.<\/p>\n
Terminology<\/h5>\n
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- kn: knit n stitches (e.g. k6 = knit 6 stitches).<\/li>\n
- k2tog: knit two stitches together<\/li>\n
- [blah] * n: do “blah” n times.\u00a0 (e.g. [k4, k2tog] * 3 = “knit 4 stitches, then knit two together.\u00a0 Repeat this 3 times).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Feel free to use the pattern as you wish, but a credit would be nice \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
Original blog post here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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