I was watching, thinking to myself, how on earth can this fit a newborn?, then, like magic, you finished it off, and voila', a newborn hat! I'm supposed to get an Addi in April, when the distributor I'm buying from gets her next shipment from Germany. I can hardly wait!
How many pins for hats up to 12 months, how many pins for toddlers, and then adults. I want to buy a machine but STILL am very confused on what size machine to get to be able to make them for all ages. Many thanks
Head circumferences for babies vs. adults are not nearly as different as one might expect. You can find charts of head circumferences online. What determines the size, more than anything else, is the length of the tube. Moreover, the tension on the yarn, even with a 46 needle machine, can be a big factor. You can knit the same hat using, say, Red Heart, and get a hat that an adult can wear, versus one that only a child can wear, just by putting more tension on the yarn for the smaller size. The yarn weight also makes a difference. I wish that she had said what she was using…this looks almost like a fingering weight.
