Bond Machine Knitting - Flamingo Hat Pattern

From: "Ann Yotter"

Subject: Flamingo hat

Flamingo Hat by Ann Yotter

Defenitions: KP3 - Keyplate #3, WY - Waste Yarn, K - Knit, tog - together,
wgt - weight,

This hat is worked in Caron Dazzle Aire, a worsted wgt acrylic that is
slightly fuzzy, slightly sparkly in a soft grey with an ombre band around
face. The ombre acrylic had no label. Used a full 3 oz skein of each, plus
the yarn to duplicate st the design. If I do it again, I will do intarsia,
now that I know where to place the design.

The bird is a little high on the hat, but can't go lower, as he will start
curling around to the underside as the hat narrows. You could make the hat
a little longer before starting the decreases to move him down. (In the
picture, Harmony doesn't have the front edge folded up so he is down where
he can be seen better.)

Use KP3, work 78 st for 70 rows on [to] WY. Rehang hem and K both layers
tog on row 71. This gives a double wgt area 35 rows wide that we wear
rolled up to give 4 layers over the ears. You could do ribbing in this area
instead or make it shorter and not wear it rolled. Whatever. Row 72 - Dec
one st at each end by moving the 2 end sts in one needle each. Continue to
decrease every 4th row until you run out of yarn or sts. I worked about 4
more rows of ombre into the decreases until I ran out of it and changed to
the grey background.

Start working the chart 16 rows down from where you joined the hem on row
71 (row 87). You will be starting at the top of the head. Chart is centered
with 12 sts to left of 0 (head side) and 11 sts to right of 0 (tail side).
I'm going to give the chart reading L to R row by row. I don't know which
side the carriage is on in the chart, as I didn't knit the design. Those
skinny little legs might be easier to duplicate st.

Sew up seam of hat and add a tassel or pompom to tail. Made a French knot
eye in black.

Flamingo Chart. 23st wide x 53 rows Colors: D - dark pink, P - light pink,
G - background, W - white, B - black, L - leg color (yellow or pink) (I
didn't like yellow with the rest of the hat, so I used a shiny,boucle light
pink that let a lot of the grey show and gave a slightly scaley look to the
legs. Just a fluke I had the stuff. My choice of black was voted down as
unauthentic by the resident flamingo expert.)

Row1 - 6G, 3D,14G
Row2 - 5G, 5D, 13G
R3 - 4G, 7D, 12G
R4 - 3G, 2W, 6D, 12G
R5 - 2G, 3W, 6D, 12G
R6 - 1G, 1B, 4W, 5D, 12G
R7 - 3B, 1W, 1G, 2D, 1G, 3D, 12G
R8 - 2B, 6G, 3D, 12G
R9 - 1B, 6G, 3D, 13G
R10 - 7G, 3D, 13G
R11 - 6G, 3D, 14G
R12 - 5G, 3D, 15G
R13 - 4G, 3D, 16G
R14 - 3G, 3D, 17G
R15 - 2G, 4D, 17G
R16 - 2G, 3D, 18G
R17 - 1G, 4D, 18G
R18 - 1G, 4D, 5G, 3P, 10G
R19 - 1G, 4D, 3G, 7P, 8G
R20 - 1G, 4D, 2G, 10P, 6G
R21 - 1G, 4D, 1G, 12P, 5G
R22 - 1G, 5D, 13P, 4G
R23 - 1G, 5D, 14P, 3G
R24 - 2G, 5D, 14P, 2G
R25 - 3G, 8D, 10P, 2G
R26 - 4G, 7D, 11P, 1G
R27 - 5G, 10D, 8P
R28 - 7G, 9D, 6P, 1G
R29 - 10G, 9D, 4P
R30 - 11G, 7D, 3G, 2P
R31 - 11G, 2D, 1L, 9G
R32 - 11G, 2D, 2L, 8G
R33 - 11G, 4L, 8G
R34 - 11G, 2L, 1G, 2L, 7G
R35 - 11G, 2L, 2G, 2L, 6G
R36 - 11G, 2L, 2G, 1L, 7G
R37 - 11G, 2L, 1G, 1L, 8G
R38 - 11G, 3L, 9G
R39 - 12G, 1L, 11G
R40 - 11G, 2L, 10G
R41 - 10G, 1L, 1G, 1L, 10G
R42 - 9G, 1L, 2G, 1L, 10G
R43, 44 - 8G, 1L, 3G, 1L, 10G
R45 to 48 - 7G, 1L, 4G, 1L, 10G
R49 to 53 - 12G, 1L, 10G
Enjoy!

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Last modified on : 18th August 1997.