Hi more experienced knitters!
DD has requested the Fae Folk Hat for her winter hat this year (so cute, yay!)
and today we went to the LYS to pick out some yarn.
We came home with some Noro Silk Garden Light, which is a DK weight, and another DK solid.
The pattern calls for worsted weight yarn on size 6 and 8 circs. Talking with the LYS owner, he suggested more of a heavy worsted/aran weight if I was going to use those size needles. DD was really liking the Noro dk weight, so I was thinking maybe I'd just use smaller needles and knit to the next size up in the pattern hoping it would come out smaller, her size.
Fooling around with the yarn this afternoon, the two yarns actually look really pretty knit up together, one strand of each. This makes together kind of a bulky weight yarn.
How do I go about changing the pattern to use this? The pattern has shaping to it- meaning I have to place markers at different places and M1L, SSN etc... so it isn't a matter of just reducing over all number of stiches.
If I used smaller needles with chunky yarn, would that sort of equal out to the size it would be if I was using the needles called for and worsted, ya think? I've been told I knit kind of tight if that helps any.
I think DD is at the end of the size range for the medium hat I think, should I just knit it to the pattern with the needles called for and my slightly heavier yarn and hope it's only a little bigger but still fits?
Did any of this make any sense, lol??
DD has requested the Fae Folk Hat for her winter hat this year (so cute, yay!)
and today we went to the LYS to pick out some yarn.
We came home with some Noro Silk Garden Light, which is a DK weight, and another DK solid.
The pattern calls for worsted weight yarn on size 6 and 8 circs. Talking with the LYS owner, he suggested more of a heavy worsted/aran weight if I was going to use those size needles. DD was really liking the Noro dk weight, so I was thinking maybe I'd just use smaller needles and knit to the next size up in the pattern hoping it would come out smaller, her size.
Fooling around with the yarn this afternoon, the two yarns actually look really pretty knit up together, one strand of each. This makes together kind of a bulky weight yarn.
How do I go about changing the pattern to use this? The pattern has shaping to it- meaning I have to place markers at different places and M1L, SSN etc... so it isn't a matter of just reducing over all number of stiches.
If I used smaller needles with chunky yarn, would that sort of equal out to the size it would be if I was using the needles called for and worsted, ya think? I've been told I knit kind of tight if that helps any.
I think DD is at the end of the size range for the medium hat I think, should I just knit it to the pattern with the needles called for and my slightly heavier yarn and hope it's only a little bigger but still fits?
Did any of this make any sense, lol??
