{"id":4,"date":"2013-02-10T14:38:17","date_gmt":"2013-02-10T19:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bitterblacktea.com\/blog\/?p=4"},"modified":"2013-02-11T19:35:47","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T00:35:47","slug":"le-petit-prince","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bitterblacktea.com\/blog\/?p=4","title":{"rendered":"Le Petit Prince"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A baby hat inspired by the Little Prince book.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/bitterblacktea.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/12\/p1060519.jpg?w=580\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" \/><\/p>\n<p>1) Cast on 2 stitches<br \/>\n2) Knit 1 row<br \/>\n3) Increase 1 stitch at each end. You should have 4 stitches on the needle.<br \/>\n4) Purl 1 row<br \/>\n5) Knit 1 row<br \/>\n6) Purl 1 row<\/p>\n<p>7) Increase 1 stitch, knit all stitches in between, increase 1 stitch on last one.<br \/>\n8) Purl 1 row<br \/>\n9) Knit 1 row<br \/>\n10) Purl 1 row<\/p>\n<p>11) Repeat Steps 7 and 10 until 48 stitches are on the needle. The piece should measure 11\u201d long and 12\u201d wide at top. You should end up with a nice triangle.<\/p>\n<p>12) Knit &amp; purl in alternate rows for another 15-20 rows (or more if you want a longer length)<\/p>\n<p>13) Knit 1, purl 1 for the next 15-20 rows.<\/p>\n<p>14) Bind off loosely.<\/p>\n<p>15) Sew the long edges together to form hat. Leave the ends on for sewing on the star later.<\/p>\n<p>16) Crochet the star:<br \/>\na- Make a magic crochet ring.<\/p>\n<p>b- 10 sc in the ring<\/p>\n<p>c- 2 sc in each stitch<\/p>\n<p>d- *sc 3 stitches, 2 sc in next stitch* repeat to end of circle. You should end with 25 stitches in the round.<\/p>\n<p>e- sc 5 ST, ch 1, turn<\/p>\n<p>f- sc all ST, ch 1, turn<\/p>\n<p>g- sc2tog, sc 1, sc2tog, ch 1, turn<\/p>\n<p>h- sc all ST, ch 1, turn<\/p>\n<p>i- sc2tog, sc 1, ch 1, turn<\/p>\n<p>j- sc 2 ST, ch 1, turn<\/p>\n<p>k- sc2tog<\/p>\n<p>l- slip stitch down one side of the star arm<\/p>\n<p>m- repeat steps e through l to make the other four arms<\/p>\n<p>17) Make another star. (My first star tend to curl up, so I made another one to stablize the arms.)<\/p>\n<p>18) Sew the stars together to make a stable unit and attach to the pointy part of hat. Weave in ends.\u00a0 Done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A baby hat inspired by the Little Prince book. 1) Cast on 2 stitches 2) Knit 1 row 3) Increase 1 stitch at each end. You should have 4 stitches on the needle. 4) Purl 1 row 5) Knit 1 row 6) Purl 1 row 7) Increase 1 stitch, knit all stitches in between, increase [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2,20,3],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts","tag-crochet","tag-hat","tag-knitting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterblacktea.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterblacktea.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterblacktea.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterblacktea.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterblacktea.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterblacktea.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterblacktea.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions\/41"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterblacktea.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterblacktea.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterblacktea.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}