{"id":793,"date":"2019-05-31T17:15:48","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T22:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/?p=793"},"modified":"2019-05-31T17:18:20","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T22:18:20","slug":"halfway-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/2019\/05\/31\/halfway-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Halfway there"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-795\" src=\"http:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Hat30-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Hat30-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Hat30-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Hat30-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Hat30.jpg 1040w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>I few weeks ago I reached my halfway mark for scarves &#8211; 25 out of 50. Last week, I finished my 30th hat. Though hats are smaller than scarves, the hat milestone meant more to me since I haven\u2019t been making hats as long. (Or at least hats that I felt I really liked.) Over half of the hats that I have made this year are top down. I think I prefer bottom up hats &#8211; start working at the brim, upward and then decreasing for the crown. I have figured out the math to make several interesting patterns so that the decrease will be even and the crown warmer.<\/p>\n<p>I think I prefer the bottom up method of hats. There are many different ways of making hats. There\u2019s another way that I make hats, side to side and then seam the rectangle\/parallelogram up the side. There are only a couple of patterns that I like to make using this method. Top down works but most of the fun and interesting motifs require a lot more fiddling with the math to do the increases so that the pattern goes all the way to the crown.<\/p>\n<p>The more you practice, the more you learn. Each hat and scarf I make, the more I learn. The last few brim to crown hats I made, I tried something new with the decreases so that the crown would be warmer and fewer holes showing through because of the decreases. I can\u2019t say that the idea for making brim to crown hats was a eureka moment. In fact, it was while I was watching some of my knitting friends make hats that way that I figured I could do that and use the motifs that I like that way. It\u2019s not even June yet and I have passed the halfway point for both scarves and hats!<\/p>\n<p>Spring will eventually stick around in Chicago, then summer and then it will be deadline time for the little red hats before you know it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Happy Crocheting!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I few weeks ago I reached my halfway mark for scarves &#8211; 25 out of 50. Last week, I finished my 30th hat. Though hats are smaller than scarves, the hat milestone meant more to me since I haven\u2019t been making hats as long. (Or at least hats that I felt I really liked.) Over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":798,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions\/798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}