Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Goal #1: Knit 3 Toques


So here's toque #2 (toque #1 here). I was using up leftover yarn . . . hence the stripes. It was pretty easy to knit. No pattern. Well, I made it too big. But it would be easy to knit again with some adjustments. 

I cast on 102 stitches with Pattons Classic, and made a fat rib (knit 3 purl 3) until it was about 3 inches and then switched to straight knit, changing colours whenever I either ran out of a colour or I thought it looked good. 

I kept going until it was long enough to just about cover my head, and then started decreasing . . . slowly. I didn't want it to be too rounded at the top. 

I think I had to knit a few randoms together first to get a number that divided by 12, and then I knitted together every 11th and 12th stitch for one round, knit a regular round, knit every 10th and 11th stitch together for one round, knit a regular round, and so on, until I was down to repeating 'knit two together' for a whole round. Then I just repeated that round until I had just a few stitches left, and I tied it up and added a pom pom! 

Next time I would cast on 6-12 less stitches, and I would start decreasing sooner.



3 comments:

  1. I absolutely LOVE it!!!!
    Found a fabulous pattern on The Purl Bee this morning and already have it printed out and ready to go! It's on my blog post for today... check it out!
    Happy 2012!
    :)maggie.

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  2. Hey... quick question... i just noticed the button for my blog on your side bar - it ROCKS! can i get the HTML code for it so others can have it to??

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  3. Thanks Maggie! I have a bunch more knit stuff that I just haven't taken any pics of yet . . . and I used patterns for some of them, so I'll have links!

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