Toque Hat - CAL Roll Call!

[dandelions2]

Who all is with me? Got your yarn? Let's start this by Friday - 7/16 - is that ok with everyone?

Link to pattern - http://www.bernat.com/pattern.php?PID=161

[ravingcutie]

Just to clarify - this is for the hat, right? :?

[dandelions2]

oops, yeah. :oops:

[mamapez]

:D I already bought my yarn AND started! I guess I'm a little ahead of the game...

Of course, I would still be :mur the single crochet if Patti hadn't helped me out. :highfive

[dandelions2]

Anytime :inlove:

[BethyM99]

For my own benefit

http://www.bernat.com/pattern.php?PID=161

I think I have yarn in the other room and I need a new baby gift quick!! I was actually cpnsidering this pattern already!!

[dandelions2]

So, anyone started yet?...besides Amy. lol

I'm about 2" into it, but have been so busy today with a sick dd and not feeling so well myself.

[dandelions2]

For my own benefit

http://www.bernat.com/pattern.php?PID=161

I think I have yarn in the other room and I need a new baby gift quick!! I was actually cpnsidering this pattern already!!

I added the link to the OP. :)

[mamapez]

Yeah, I'm all done!!! And before my KAL is finished :oops: even though I started that a week or two before...

crochet really is faster!

Let me weave in the ends and then I'll look around for our camera to post a pic. :pink

[BethyM99]

ohh yeah... I gotta grab my yarn and hook for this one... I'm using a baby soft acrylic. It calls for a size smaller hook than pattern so I'm hoping that's enough to size it for a bit smaller babe. My friend is due next week!! Did it hook up quick??

[dandelions2]

I've been doing a bigillion other things, so I'm still at about 2 1/2" - but if you are a veteran crocheter, I'd say it's a 2-3 hour project. Amy's a complete newbie and she's done already. :bigups:

[dandelions2]

k, i finished it. Did it bother anyone else that the abbrev. for slip stitch was ss? I'm so used to seeing it as sl st that everytime I saw ss I would get confused and my mind would just go blank. :irked Anywho, anyone else think that dd's molly doll looks like a skater girl in this hat? : http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v342/dandelions2/100_0960.jpg

http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v342/dandelions2/100_0962.jpg

[mamapez]

Oops! Meant to post this here. :oops:

Okay, dh came home with the camera today, so I posted my crochet-along here:

http://woolywonder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=598

I used Lion Brand Cotton-Ease in popsicle blue and pistachio.

[dandelions2]

Amy, what did your gauge turn out to be? I think my hat is smaller than yours....I just checked my guage and it was right on with the pattern....no way this is a size 6-9 months....either that or ds's head is huge. ;)

[BethyM99]

I'm about 2 inches in, the pitfalls of doing more than one thing at a time :D I'm using a lighter weight yarn (baby soft) but it does seem to be a newborn size. I held it up against my 3month old (granted, he's 14lbs) but i don't think it would fit him. Fortunately, the inteded giftee is not born yet!! So hopefully it gets finished before he grows out of it :lol:

[mamapez]

Amy, what did your gauge turn out to be? I think my hat is smaller than yours....I just checked my guage and it was right on with the pattern....no way this is a size 6-9 months....either that or ds's head is huge. ;)

I will have to check my gauge when I get home, but I think I was right on as well. It is too big to be 6-9 months, unless you have a head like my ds. I was even able to put it on his head now at 17 months! Although, it was more to the back on his head. I think BethyM99 has the right idea with a lighter weight yarn. :nod

[BethyM99]

:D Mine is definitely not looking too big... I'll try to work on it more tonight to see what it turns into :) It's hard to have 3 projects and two kids :lol:

[dandelions2]

I will have to check my gauge when I get home, but I think I was right on as well. It is too big to be 6-9 months, unless you have a head like my ds. I was even able to put it on his head now at 17 months! Although, it was more to the back on his head. I think BethyM99 has the right idea with a lighter weight yarn. :nod

No way - you must have a looser stitch - did you use the G hook or H? I used G - shoulda used H I think cause it's tiny.

[mamapez]

I used whatever hook we decided was right. Whatever 6 is in letters. Can you tell I'm a newbie? :roll:
The pattern calls for a 7, but my kit only had size 6 and 8 in it.

[mamapez]

Amy, what did your gauge turn out to be? I think my hat is smaller than yours....I just checked my guage and it was right on with the pattern....no way this is a size 6-9 months....either that or ds's head is huge. ;)

The pattern has the gauge at 16 sc and 20 rows in 4" with a 4.50mm (7 US) crochet hook.

I got 16 sc and 16 rows in 4" with a 4.25mm (6 US or G) crochet hook. So my hat should be taller than theirs was, but the same circumference. I measure a 16-19" circumference. It stretches pretty big. Andrew is somewhere between 19 and 20 inches, and so it almost fits him fully stretched.

8)

[dandelions2]

So yours must just be taller than mine cause my gauge was exact. I'd measure but I'm nak. I'll take a look tomorrow. I don't think mine is as stretchy as yours. I didn't try to hard to get it on Dominic cause he didn't want me to, and I just assumed it wouldn't fit, but maybe it would if I tried. Who knows, I'll look tomorrow.

[BethyM99]

:irked :irked :irked

I'm still doing the sc around... but I seem to be getting an increase on every row so my hat is, lopsidedly "shapely"

I'll probably :pezfrog it, how can I prevent this? I always have a hard time "seeing" the ch1 to know when I've reached the end of the round....

[dandelions2]

Do you have a stitch marker? You could mark your first stitch so you know when you come to it.

[BethyM99]

I do, I have never used them with crochet.... I can't picture how I would. When you knit you just carry it along the needle.

:irked Too many hobbies! :lol: :lol:

[dandelions2]

You put it through the stitch you want to mark or around the post of the stitch - really any way you want - just as long as you know which one it is.

[BethyM99]

Cool!! It won't get "stuck" there? Beth's new form of beaded crochet? :lookroun:

[dandelions2]

What kind of markers are you using? You should use something that you'll be able to slip off, otherwise it could get crocheted into the hat. :pink My markers are little plastic safety pins. You could also use a small piece of yarn and loosely tie it around the stitch.

[dandelions2]

k, i measured and my hat stretches to 18" and is 7 1/2 inches long (that's all the way to the tip). Dominic's head is 18 1/2 inches, so it's just a little too tight.

[BethyM99]

I might give it a whirl again... the intended recipient was born Monday (I just found out today) and I'm visiting tomorrow to show mama how to use her diapers.... So, it might get done... :D Or scrapped, haven't decided yet...

[dandelions2]

Beth - how's the hat coming? Are you finished?

[BethyM99]

haha, nope!! I frogged it. the baby was born so I made him a baby quilt instead and went back to my knitting... :) It just wasn't meant to be. I will try to do another crochet along. I really appreciate the variety... I just hate when I get increases in a round... arggh!