After seeing the knit caps on Gina's craft page, I decided that I wanted mine to have a roll instead of ribbing at the base. So I ripped out what I had done and started over. (Good thing I'm working on small projects that are easy to do over!) I'm really happy with how it's looking, but I think I'm at or past the point where I need to decrease stitches for the top. That's a bit intimidating, so I started on the scarf instead.
I got some pink yarn to go with the red and orange, and I think the colors look pretty good! I don't, however, like the way it curls up, ending up about half the width that I wanted. Is there a way to fix that? Blocking or something? The sweaters I have with ribbing lay pretty flat. Maybe I should switch to a seed stitch or something.
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scarves that curl are mega-annoying. knitting an entire scarf in seed stitch is even more annoying, however. i've found blocking to be pretty effective, or having a border of some sort (or jsut not doing scarves in stockinette); my mom (a newer knitter) likes to alternate--a few rows garter, a few rows stockinette, whatever.
let me know if you need help w/ decreases. they're really easy, you just need to be consistent. like do a k8, k2together thing, then knit a row regular-like, then k7, k2tog, then knit a row regular-like, till you only have a couple stitches left and can just pull the yarn through 'em. good times. and if it's messy up top, you can always add a pompom! (i did that once when i was at my parents' and didn't have doublepointed needles to finsih the hat.)
Colors do look swell!
The thing is that if # knit stiches > # purl stiches, you're probably going to get a roll... it's a ratio thing. Here's a set of posts on it from the knitting community onrolling
Blocking can (and probably will) help, as will knitting it in the round.
Ribbing, in general, though will be narrower than the same thing knitted flat ('cause it's getting all 3-D, you know).
I'd be glad to help with decreases on hat -- it's not nearly as hard as it seems.
Colors do look swell!
The thing is that if # knit stiches > # purl stiches, you're probably going to get a roll... it's a ratio thing. Here's a set of posts on it from the knitting community onrolling
Blocking can (and probably will) help, as will knitting it in the round.
Ribbing, in general, though will be narrower than the same thing knitted flat ('cause it's getting all 3-D, you know).
I'd be glad to help with decreases on hat -- it's not nearly as hard as it seems.