Wednesday 27 June 2012

Knitted Hat Sizes

One of the things I find most difficult about making things is the sizing. Especially with hats.  Seems everyone has an idea about fit and there is no good guide. 

This is a chart from Knitpicks...


...and one from Bev's Country Cottage...





...and I had another from Woolly Wormhead but Blogger won't let me display it, so here's the link.

 Now they all say you need NEGATIVE EASE in a hat, and I know that means make it smaller so it stretches to fit... so I tried on the 3 Miranda hats I've made so far...

...well the child size wouldn't go on my head at all, so I'm guessing that'll be good for the 6-10 year old quoted in the pattern, but the turquoise hat measures 19" across when measured across the ribbing on a flat surface, and the pink one measures 20" across. 

So - I measured my head - about 1" above the eyebrows - and my head is 21". This is a pre-teen or teen's size according to Knit Picks and Bev's Country Cottage and smaller than an adult  though larger than a child or teenager according to Woolly Wormhead!


And the pink hat is ridiculously large on me!

hat too big?

Hopefully the charity I finally give them to will have a wide variety of people with heads of all different sizes!  Or should I line them, add handles and make shopping bags?

2 comments:

.x.Helen.x. said...

Something so simple and yet still a minefield! I have the opposite problem, i knit hats because i have a big head! So all the ones in the shops perch on top of my head in quite a strange fashion.

quilterliz said...

G'day Penny. Oh Penny I did laugh at your photo. I do love the colour you have made the hat in. Yes, it looks just a tad too big. I am sure there is someone out there who will just love it. Take care. Liz...