Fourth time's the charm! I figured out the right number of stitches per row, and overall rows to make a hat that fits the way I like. I still need to learn more about better ways to reduce stitches so it bunches up less at the top. Still, overall this was a good project to learn machine knitting with. #knitting #machineknitting
@kyle Looks great!
@JoanESheldon Thank you!
@kyle if you know how many rows you have and how many stitches you need to decrease, you can space them out evenly over the rows.
@McGrathKnits That does make sense. I guess I just need to find a hat pattern that does this so I have a sense of where one would start decreasing, and how many ending rows you would want, ideally that also considers the limitations of flatbed machines compared to circular knitting.
@kyle there is no hard and fast rule. But in general, you’d want to space the decreases evenly across the rows. For instance, if you need to decrease 20 stitches over 200 rows, you’d divide 200/20. So you’d decrease 1 stitch q 10 rows. But you could d/c 2 stitches every time you stop the carriage, so you could change that to d/c q 20 rows.
Here’s a video on Beanie making. Not sure if it might help or not.
@kyle Nice. Machineknitting hats that fit right is not easy. I have some that look great but don’t wear them because they are too tight.