craf·te·ra·ti

Have you ever been knitting something and realized there was something you didn’t quite know how to accomplish? Yes, the knitting challenge and subsequent knitting experiment.

You see, I was working on knitting a hat for a friend of mine. She wanted a visor beanie. So knitting up the main part of the hat was quite easy, although I completely fudged my way through the decreases on the top. I guess as much as doing moss stitch makes it a pain, it also camouflages quite well.

So I had gotten the main hat done when I started thinking about how to do the visor. I have a visor beanie and it was done in k1p1 rib and stretched across. I liked the way that looked much more than the sort of mitered visor they did in Stitch N Bitch Nation newsboy cap. So I picked up stitches and knit some and then tried binding off. This wasn’t going to work. I knew it.

There had to be a better way. I was wracking my brain when it finally came to me…Short rows! This would be the solution to all of my problems. I’d never done short rows in rib but I imagined it should be fine and it was. The brim came out quite perfectly. I was so happy. Knitting experiment…SUCCESS!

I really like the way it looks with the picked up stitches and even from the inside the sewn in side looks nice as well. I may have to write this up as a pattern, but perhaps minus the moss stitch!