Knit hat from a sweater

A while back, I lost my slouchy knit hat at the arboretum. I looked everywhere for one that I liked as a replacement, but I never found anything good. I have two coats - one dark gray and one red - so I wanted something that went with both. I looked around and found this tutorial, then I found the perfect sweater to use.

I followed the tutorial pretty much as-is, but I skipped the brim piece, because it wasn't necessary. I just used the hem of the sweater as the edge of the hat. The first step was to make a few cuts. the stripes made it easy to do.

I plan to make fingerless gloves from the sleeves, but that will have to wait until a later post!. I took the bottom rectangle, put it on my head, and marked where I needed the side seam. Sorry, no picture of that, but it was silly looking, I'll tell you. Then I stitched up the marked line and cut off the excess, which is on the right side of the picture.

I folded the hat part in half the long way and clipped off the top corners, like so.

I opened it back up and stitched along the outside edges of the two points. I experimented on the scraps a bit to find the best stitch to use and ended up just doing a regular straight stitch.

As you can see, I did not round the edges very much with my seams. It made weird corners on the hat that I later had to fix by rounding the seam more as it went from the side of the point to the side of the hat. I pulled open the hat so the front and the back of the area between the points came together, then stitched that down, too, lining up stripes as much as I could.

Once all the corners were properly rounded, I was done.

I can also pull it down more and roll up the hem. 

Thanks for reading! - Amy