This is my June Project Spectrum knit - Wurm. FAIL.
I have no idea what happened. It must have been my calculations. My gauge swatch returned a slightly bigger gauge than normal. Fine, but then I measured my head and looked up how big the hat should be.
My head is a good 22 inches around (it's the curly hair, I swear!). The largest size CO is 110 - divided by 5.5sts to the inch is 20inches. Right? So my mind says, "Two inches of negative ease... good right?". NOT.
Just when I think I've figured out design I am thrown for a loop. (pun not intended) How much negative ease do you give for a hat?
Rrrriiiip!
My attempts at Wurm were similar, more like a cowl than a hat. My rule of them is always to go with the smallest size shown in the pattern and adjust for length.
As for the hair - its good to know you can take a girl out of Jersey, but she still has her Big Jersey Hair. :->
Posted by: Denise | June 07, 2011 at 08:11 PM
Ooops! I thought you would have been ok with the 2" negative ease. Gauge does do funny things though!
Posted by: Louise | June 07, 2011 at 08:15 PM
It's funny, I feel like the knitting god sometimes just laugh at us when we think we have this whole knitting thing all figured out! I'd have thought 2 inches negative ease for a hat would be a slam dunk. But I guess the gauge is playing tricks on you!
Posted by: Julie | June 08, 2011 at 09:44 AM
Total mystery! I wonder if the yarn just has a mind of its own?
Posted by: Evelyn | June 08, 2011 at 12:29 PM
Oups... sorry I can't help, I'm still learning too! Thank God it wasn't a sweater ;-) Nice color though, hope you will knit another one!
Posted by: Maryse | June 08, 2011 at 10:48 PM
When I start out knitting a hat, I always think that it is gong to be way too small - but then it fits perfectly. I don't know how much negative ease you need for a hat but maybe it would help to look at other hat patterns that fit you for the number of cast on stitches. Good luck!
Posted by: Michele | June 09, 2011 at 08:39 AM