Notre Dame hat

[nonny2t]

Since I made slippers for my dil and bought a tshirt for my grandson, I didn't want to leave out my son. They are big Notre Dame fans, even live near the university so I hope he likes it. Duplicate stitch is not my best ability for sure especially with yarn so dark. I just hope he enjoys it.

[salmonmac]

Your son will love it! The hat is beaurifully done. Don't be surprised if the ND bookstore calls to place an order.

[nonny2t]

Your son will love it! The hat is beaurifully done. Don't be surprised if the ND bookstore calls to place an order.

I would say "No WAY!" I hate doing duplicate stitch and say everytime I do it, I won't do it again. Tx for your lovely comments!

[mojo11]

I would say "No WAY!" I hate doing duplicate stitch and say everytime I do it, I won't do it again. Tx for your lovely comments!

Duplicate stitch isn't my best thing either, but I'd rather do it that way than intarsia! Really NICE work on the hat!

[Antares]

The hat looks great, as do your stitches--duplicate and otherwise.

A question for you: Since the color motifs are close together, would fair isle have worked for this hat?

[nonny2t]

The hat looks great, as do your stitches--duplicate and otherwise.

A question for you: Since the color motifs are close together, would fair isle have worked for this hat?

I did try fair isle first but found that they were far enough away from each other that the stitching in the back just would not stay tight so I gave up after a couple tries. Since I knit it in the round, I couldn't use intarsia either and I discovered that after I tried that too then googled info on doing it in the round and found you can only do intarsia on flat knitting so duplicate stitch it was! lol

[Jan in CA]

It does look like a good fair isle project. You just need to learn to catch the floats on those longer areas. However you did a great job on the duplicate stitch! I'm sure he'll love it!

[Antares]

If I remember correctly, there is a way to do intarsia in the round. I've not done it yet, but I've read about it. Here's a search I did on YouTube for it: http://www.youtube.com/results?searc....1.QLGqFAhXbec

[nonny2t]

It does look like a good fair isle project. You just need to learn to catch the floats on those longer areas. However you did a great job on the duplicate stitch! I'm sure he'll love it!

Thanks for the info Jan. I have only done one fair isle project and it was a dog sweater. I looked up info on catching the floats so I know how from now on. Thanks again.

[GrumpyGramma]

Great hat! You deserve an A for the wonderful knitting and extra credit for figuring out how to make it work. So I consider it an A+ job. I really does look fantastic!