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[pamelamama]

The pattern is here (http://www.woolywonder.com/patternpages/keppie.pdf).

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[MaggieT]

Dear Pamelamama,

Thanks for making this keppie pattern available to everyone! It's an awesome pattern, and the only one I've found for a Buchari kippah on the web!

I'd like to make one for my fiancé for our upcoming wedding, and I'd like to make it so that the inside of the Star of David is one color, it's outlined in a contrasting color (just one stitch of outlining), and outside the star (but inside the circumference) of the top circle it's another color that'll also be the color of the sides. How would I do this? I sense that if I do the OC (outline color) for one stitch in the place where you YO in the Star of David version, I'll at least have the borders set up; then I'd have to go one stitch to the right and one to the left on the next row? And also, how would I do the increases if I did this? (If I'm not being clear, please let me know.)

I really appreciate your help on this, and am excited to make the kippah!

Many thanks!

[pamelamama]

would you consider doing it with embroidery and duplicate stitch?

[pamelamama]

it would be easier to see after the fact where you want the colors to go, you know what I mean?

[MaggieT]

I do see what you mean; but wouldn't that make it harder to do the outside of the star (I mean the space outside the border, which you're right it would be easier to do as embroidery after) in the same color as the sides (which would be a different color from inside the star)? But I'm totally going to ask him if he'd be okay with the inside and outside being the same color, because that would make it so much easier! Thanks for writing back so quickly.

[wutmeworry]

Hi! I think I may be doing something really obviously wrong. Admittedly, the pattern uses techniques I had to look up online, so my level of expertise is way below that of the rest of youse guys, but this seems like a really supportive group. Here's my problem:
at ROW 8 the instructions say (I think) to increase every other stich, resulting in 36 stitches, but when I do that, my 24 stitches turn into 48, and I don't see how they would become 36. There's no discussion of misprint here, so I must be misinterpreting the instructions. When it says, "(...k1, LLI, k1, RLI) repeat around" what could it mean besides "increase every other stitch all the way around"? Sorry for the ignorance! Thanks for any help!