Making decreases
for your knitted hat
The next step to finishing our Top This! hat is to do the simple
stitch decreases needed to shape the crown of the hat, or the
very top of the hat.
What the top of your hat will look like with all the
finished decreases.
For this kit, the decreases are worked as a simple spiral, where
the decreases are spaced evenly around each round. You can
see what this looks like in the first photo when it’s all finished.
The first thing you’ll need to do is transfer your stitches from
your circular needle (if you were using one) onto your double-pointed needles (DPNs). As you decrease stitches, it will
be harder to fit them onto the fixed circumference of the circular needle, so even if you start a hat with a circular needle
you’ll also need the DPNs in order to finish it.
Transfer your stitches to double-pointed needles for the
crown decreases.
Place stitch markers evenly around the needles as
indicated by the pattern.
The other step you’ll need to do is place stitch markers
around the needles, evenly spaced according to the pattern
instructions. Since we’re using the DPNs at this point, the
gap between 2 DPNs counts as a “marker”. So, ݗ