Knot Knecessarily Known Knitting

In yesterday's video, you saw how to create the stitches. Today's video will show you how to work them off in pattern for either 1x1 or 2x2 ribbing. You can extrapolate from that for syncopated rib. If you recall my post a few years ago about something I called scalloped cast-on, the 2x2 rib in the video is scalloped cast-on.

As I stated yesterday, the Common Crowd Cap uses invisible cast on. Today's video will show you how to get stitches cast on to your needle. Tomorrow's video will show you how to work them off in pattern. Basically, you regard the spare circular needle as if it were a wire and create yarn overs by ducking back and forth underneath the wire.  If you have worked Cat Bordhi's Möbius cast-on, you may recognize the resemblance.

This is one of those posts I should have done months ago. Then again, I believe I've mentioned catching up as a current theme in my life? Last year, the STITCHES teachers were asked if we would be willing to contribute original hat patterns to Halos of Hope. I don't wear hats much, but the shaping of them isn't difficult, so I said, "Sure!" Pam Haschke, the founder of Halos of Hope, asked us, "What would you want to wear if you had lost your hair to chemotherapy?" My answer is that I'd probably just want to fit in. Hence the name of my pattern, the Common Crowd Cap. The goal is just to keep fitting in with the common crowd. The pattern is for sale on the Halos of Hope website, along with much better pictures than the ones I took. Halos of Hope often has a booth at STITCHES events. If you happen to be attending, you can see my hat as well as a lot of much more inventive designs in person. I made two versions. One has dangles, because I find dan...