Knitting Needles etc.

I think it might be easier to crochet with this project, but there has to be a way to do this with knitting. Im trying to make a tam, or beanie hat. All the tutorials i’ve seen teach how to knit in the round to create the brim of the hat. I want to start from the center of that hat and work my way to the brim. how can i do this? I’m using circular needles.

My wife is a bit of a nit and she says it should be possible although doesn’t know why you would want to do that.

I want to knit a hat with straight needles but i’m confuse with how to fasten off the top of the hat. The instruction on the pattern just say cut yarn, thread sewing needle and sew or weave back seam. It doesn’t say anything about the top of the hat. Please help…

basically when you knit a hat on straight needles you are creating a modified triangle shape.

Then you sew up the side of the triangle to make the hat circular.

The easiest way to finish the top of the hat is to stop your decreases with 6 or 8 stitches left, then cut off your yarn leaving plenty of extra.

Take the extra yarn (which is connected to your first stitch on the needle) and weave it through the remaining stitches. Drop each stitch off the needle as you weave the yarn through it.

Then pull the yarn tight,forming the top stitches into a circular shape (kind of like flower petals), then use the rest of the yarn tail to sew up the side of the hat.

I want to wash my scarf, but last time I washed my hand-knitted sweater it became loose and lost its shape… why?

The tumbling of the dryer will cause knitted garments to stretch out of shape. Best to wash with Woolite and dry flat on a towel. Merry Christmas!

Someone gave me a bunch of leftover skeins of yarn, some of which have no labels. I’m not very experienced with knitting or crocheting, so I’d like to know how to tell the difference between worsted weight and sport weight yarn.

A very quick, very old standby to size any yarn is to wrap it around a knitting needle and then count the wraps per inch. Wrap a yarn that you know the size of as well so that you have a comparison. I have some very old European patterns that call for yarn by the wraps per inch instead of the weight.