heck yeah knitting blog

No point mentioning those bats, I thought. The poor bastard will see them soon enough.

Flat Pack Hat!

This is not a difficult knit, and the results are straight-up wearable, but it’s really weird in terms of its construction. It’s knit completely flat, but has no short rows; the crown shaping is conventional, but up til the end, it looks almost incoherent. You really do kind of have to trust the process, and this took me about six weeks to finish just because I frankly did not, but the only changes I made were improvements to the finishing. (I think I also sized the medium down a little; I like my hats to have negative ease.)

It’s as weird as Columnar Jointing, but as much as I hate to say it, it probably works better—the Flat Pack Hat is designed around a flexible welting/ribbing stitch pattern that gives it a remarkable amount of stretch and a good fit. Getting the size exactly right is much more forgiving. Baby size is extremely tiny to me, but I don’t really know any babies currently, so they tend to surprise me by being little like that. The medium should fit 20-23" head circumferences, and the large should overlap that and work for larger sizes, 23-26". (Medium fits me perfectly and is a little big on the foam guy; I could wear the large.)