Design: The blue and white hat

The blue and white hat is knitted with fair isle using card number 17 that came with my Brother knitting machine. The other two are made with designs from the book Ornaments and Patterns found in Iceland. I cast on with tension 1/1 and hang the large cast on comb and four large weights. I have used 3 rows of selvedge for this project before knitting the required rows of rib.

After transferring all the stitches from the ribber to the needle bed of the knitter the knitting machine is set to knit fair isle and the required rows are knitted. The decreasing of stitches is done by first using the 2x transfer tool (two prong tool) to move every third stitch to the adjacent stitch, set the tension to one lower than your knitting tension and knit two rows. The next decreasing is by taking every other stitch and transferring to the adjacent stitch and again lowering the tension to one lower than before, knit two rows. Cut the yarn approximately the length that is required to sow up the hat. Gather the stitches on to the yarn and pull up tight, I use a large needle to do this, and pull the yarn twice more through the stitches so that the pulling together of the stitches becomes a bit stronger.

Now all that is left is to sow up.