Skeletoque, aka the Skeleclava

Step 4 Decreases, and, the Teeth

This is sort of two steps, but I ran them together here because I ran them together as I did it. Decreases first.

You may have noticed in one of the last picture that the lower edge of the hat flares out. This was not my intention. I had sort of assumed that I would just knit a tube right down to the teeth and then make a neck. Well, I had about two inches too much along the circumference, because your head isn't as wide all the way down. You'd think I would have picked that up after four years of art school.

I decided to take those two inches out by ripping back a few rows and spreading the decreases out over six rows. I knitted until near the middle, then k2t0g a few times, k to end, purled back, and repeated. If I was really on the ball I would have found the centre line of the back, marked it, ssk on one side and k2t0g on the other side so the stitches lean towards each other. Nope. Found out about that in my next project.

So now the hat is form fitted to your very attractive head. Now you need to give this toque some bite and make it threatening to the old grannies who will want to swap knitting stories with you. (I wish someone would share their knitting stories with me. All I got was weird looks.)

Again, I used short rows here. Just knit a little (4 or 5 stitches) ways in, wrap and turn, and go back. Do some decreases to make your teeth as long or short or round or pointy as you like. I cast on some stitches at the start of each tooth so I could overlap them a little.