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When I swatch this yarn* as a rectangle, I get 9 stitches in 4.5" (or 2 stitches/inch).

When I try to make an earflap with the same yarn, same needles, same tensioning technique, 4.5" is 11 stitches (i.e. ~2.4 stitches/inch).

What am I not understanding?

Say I just keep going until the earflaps are the size I need them to be, and then use my rectangular gauge to calculate how many stitches to cast on for the front and the back, will I end up with a hat that's way too big because once I join in the round my gauge will go back up?

I.e., total circumference of the hat is 20". Each earflap is 5.5". The front is also 5.5", and the back is 3.5". If I keep going, say it takes me 13 stitches to reach 5.5" for each earflap. That's a total of 26 stitches for both earflaps. Then for the front I cast on 5.5" x 2 sts/inch = 11 stitches, and for the back I cast on 3.5" x 2 sts/inch = 7 stitches. That's a total of 44 stitches. I join in the round, and because I'm not doing any increases, I get 2 stitches/inch. That will give me a hat that's 22 inches around, i.e. too big. I am confused.

I think I'm just gonna have to do it and see what happens. It's a good thing I have a second skein, because I see a lot of frogging in this skein's future. First I need to get a metal circular needle though: it turns out polyester is super grabby and doesn't play well with my wood needles.

*Red Heart Boutique Chic, essentially identical to Bernat Blanket.

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Moving right along.

So I decided that it's high fucking time that I knit something for myself. I have some fuzzy polyester fleece yarn that I wanted to use to make a hat because polyester fleece is pretty much the only material besides cotton that I can tolerate on my forehead (and cotton is nowhere near warm enough for Canadian winters).

Photo credit.

It's pretty crazy yarn: it had all these faux fur pom-poms attached to it (I got it at a thrift store). So I went through and painstakingly removed all the pom-poms and ended up with a big pile of soot sprites that I've hidden all over the apartment.

Anyway, it's rated as super bulky so I figured that if I choose a pattern that calls for a different super bulky yarn I might have to alter the stitch counts a bit but it should work. I chose this Berocco hat:

And then I started swatching. The gauge the pattern calls for is 12 sts = 4”; 16 rnds = 4”. With a 5mm needle I got 8.5 stitches and 17 rows/4”:

I.e., my stitch:row ratio is way too low (like, WAY too low), making the ear flap the wrong shape: too wide and too short. There amount of math required to fix this problem would effectively mean coming up with a whole new pattern (and I'm not convinced that the earflaps would look good; there would be steps in the increases), so I'm at a loss.

I think I might go back to working on my double knit blanket. At least I know that I know how to do that.

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