Knitting Needles etc.

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.

2 Responses

1. Baby boomer rock fan Says:
   January 4th, 2010 at 3:48 pm

   The easiest way is to probably take your yarn, put it into a big sewing needle, and run it through all the stitches of your last row of knitting. Then slide the stitches off the knitting needle and gather them up as tight as you can on the yarn, and make a knot with the yarn. Now you’re ready to sew the back seam.
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2. Courtney Says:
   January 4th, 2010 at 4:00 pm

   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.
   References :

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