In this picture you can see the back of the hat, while it is still on the needles, marker just 2 stitches away. I cast on 96 stitches for this hat, and the design has a flat top so I will need to start the seam one quarter of the way past the middle of the back. This allows me to use the attached yarn to graft the opening.
In this picture, you can see the small amount of the shaded yarn we used for the fairisle. By using this long colour repeat we made the hat it meant that we only needed to use one yarn for all of the colours, instead of 4 or 5. My mother calls this instant fairisle.
My vintage pink Pingouin cotton waste yarn knitting the contrast again, the curly edges need blocking, oh my!
Basting along the top and bottom with a sturdy wooly wool.
A nice blunt tapestry needle and running stitches near to the edges.
Iron and pet linen tea towel have made their magic.
Then there is the glitch in the circular knitting caused by the cast on. Let's graft it by sewing a stitch that imitates a knitting.
I use the tail from the cast on and form a stitch in the gap, then tuck the rest away along the purl side.
This is such a small, quick technique and it work wonders for smoothing the edge.
On the other side, the top, this photo shows grafting the stitches just below the hot pink cotton waste knitting.
Grafting all done and ready to remove the waste knitting.
See! A perfect join, just as if one knitted the row with knitting needles, then steam and warm up the the edges once again as a final touch.
A bit small in size for our Mrs. Black, but looks quite ok, in fact very cute.
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