Materials:
Crystal Palace Bamboo Needles:
• 16” circular needle, size 10.5
• 8” double point needles, size 10.5
• 1 ball each Rave – #302
Pacificer Pink & #301 Outrage Orange
• 1 ball Party Ribbon –
#213 Black
Sizes: 56 stitches for teen/small (66 stitches for medium/large -
adult )
Instructions
Cast 56 (66) stitches using circular needle, with Black Party #213
for 5 rows, change to Rave #301 Outrage Orange and knit stripe for desire
width and change to Black Party and knit 2 or 3 rows, change to Rave #302
Pacificer Pink and knit for desire width, continue striping for a total of
9” to the crown.
Decrease rounds: knit 2 stitches together until 9 stitches are
left. Change to DP needles when diameter gets too small for circular needle.
Finishing top:
Split 9 stitches into 3 groups: 3 stitches, 3 stitches, and 3 stitches for I
-cord top trim. Knit each group of 3 sts into I-cords for desired length.
Optional: add opposite colors of Rave on ends of I-Cord as we did in photo.
Sew all openings at top with same color yarn. Knot the ends of I-Cords
and tie the three I-Cords together.
Designed and Knit
by Yuke Hong for Crystal Palace Yarns
Copyright 2005 Crystal Palace Yarns/Straw Into Gold, Inc. - We
are happy to share this pattern with knitters. The pattern may be
used for non-commercial personal or knitting guild use. It is not to be
used in any publication in print nor should it be reproduced in
electronic/digital format without permission. Knitting shops carrying CPY
Yarns RAVE & Party are welcome to print and share this pattern with customers of our
yarns.
Retail shops in the USA should contact CPY Wholesale for information on
purchasing Crystal Palace Yarns and email
cpyinfo -at- straw.com (replace the -at- with @)
or write to:
Crystal Palace Yarns, 160 23rd St., Richmond, CA 94804
phone: 510-237-9988, fax: 510-237-9809
Last revision of this page
July 22, 2005