PSA's

The location for recycling prescription bottles is here in Ohio, a little south of me, in Dover, Ohio. Dover is a bucolic little town, so typical of the Connecticut Western Reserve (though the Reserve may not have extended to what became Tuscarawas County).

For due diligence, I googled "recycle prescription bottles", in the event there are more around the country. Only the Tuscarawas service was returned. It is through the Matthew 25 Ministries. That is the pill bottle address. Here is the site of the ministry: https://m25m.org/

They accept over the counter plastic bottles, too. Aspirin, supplements, all those pesky bottles that I'm sure are not recycled. 

Moving right along, here are the roll brim hat instructions. I have not found out how to get pictures back into the instructions. The yarn is wool, worsted weight (4 ply), but any worsted weight will do.

ROLL BRIM HAT

The pattern is for adult small, medium and large.  The top of the hat is decreased in six sections, or gores, which produces a very attractive swirl.  This kind of decreasing is a simple formula.  The number of gores must divide evenly into the original number of stitches.  When decreasing, knit together the last two stitches in the gore.  It can be helpful to place markers.  At the end of the pattern I have included number of stitches to cast on and the number of stitches in the gore sections to make the hat for infants and children.

 To fit sizes:  Small (20”), Medium (21 ¼”), Large (22 ½”).  These sizes are fairly nominal; if the hat is knit in wool, which is very forgiving, a small will also fit a medium.

 Materials:  1 skein, 110 yards, Ewe Tree DK to Worsted weight

16” circular #6, 1 set #6 DP needles

 Gauge:  4.5 sts = 1”

 Instructions:

With 16” circular needle, cast on 90 (96, 102)sts.  Join.  Place marker for beginning of round.

Work in stockinette stitch (knit every round) for 6”.

Decrease top as follows:  (if necessary, place a marker after every decrease to denote gore section)

 Round 1: K13(14, 15), K2tog.  Repeat to end.

Round 2: K

Round 3: K12(13,14), K2tog.  Repeat to end.

Round 4:  K

Round 5: K11(12,13), K2tog.  Repeat to end.

Round 6:  K

 Continue in this manner until 48 sts remain, then decrease every round until 6 sts remain.  Break yarn, draw through the 6 sts, pull to inside through the center top.  Work in ends.

 To make this hat in smaller sizes:

                                                Infant              3 to 6 years      7 to 10 years    11 to 15 years

 

Cast on                                    66                    72                    78                    84

 Knit 5 to 6 inches

 Stitches in gore                       9                     10                    11                    12