Free Knit His Skull Hat Pattern

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When it comes to the shaping of the crown the number of stitches you should end up with don’t add up. I don’t know if they just added them wrong or if there was a step missing but it forced me to improvise to try to fix the patterns mistake

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• I'm sorry to hear that you had a difficult time with the pattern but it's great to hear you were able to figure it out in a way that worked! The crown is correct in how it's written. It's important to remember that the decrease is a double decrease (meaning 2 stitches are decreased at a time). If any of them are missed, the math won't add up. Since it's a double decrease followed up by 4 knit stitches, that makes each repeat a total of 5 stitches. There are a total of 10 repeats. That gives you 50 stitches. You have 1 knit at the start of the row and 2 at the end for a total of 3 more stitches bringing the row total to 53 stitches at the end of the first crown shaping row. The second decrease row holds the same pattern: a total of 10 repeats. That means this row will also be decreased by a total of 20 stitches bringing the row total to 33. The very last decrease row does not use double decreases. It does, however, decrease in every stitch. Since the row is an odd number of stitches, you'll be left with an odd number at the end of the row as well. You'll k2tog across the row 16 times and then knit the remaining stitch. This gives you the final stitch count of 17. The double decreases can be easily skipped which will throw off the stitch count in later portions of the hat. It happens to the best of us! I'm thrilled to hear you were able to make it work and that you were able to finish the project!

  spinrite2023-09-18T17:09:20.000+00:00

How would you convert this pattern for circular needles?Thanks