{"id":1419,"date":"2026-02-15T18:16:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T00:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/?p=1419"},"modified":"2026-02-15T18:16:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T00:16:41","slug":"lessons-im-learning-from-the-melt-the-ice-hat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/lessons-im-learning-from-the-melt-the-ice-hat\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons I&#8217;m learning from the Melt the ICE hat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I made my first<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/melt-the-ice-hat\"> Melt the ICE (MTI) hat<\/a> several weeks ago. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/projects\/jen52\/melt-the-ice-hat\">It was for me<\/a>. That way, whatever mistakes I made are mine to wear. I thought the hat was a little small for my head, so for the next hat, I added an inch to the ribbing and 4 rows of stockinette after the ribbing but before the decreases. I like it a little bigger like this. Then I saw people talking about adding a knit row in the ribbing where you want to fold up the brim to create a nice edge. So I added that in the third hat. I love it! I&#8217;m just starting my fourth hat, and I think I&#8217;ll stick with the same alterations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information on the MTI hat, <a href=\"http:\/\/npr.org\/2026\/01\/31\/nx-s1-5693767\/red-hat-protest-minnesota\">see this great article on NPR<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made my first Melt the ICE (MTI) hat several weeks ago. It was for me. That way, whatever mistakes I made are mine to wear. I thought the hat was a little small for my head, so for the next hat, I added an inch to the ribbing and 4 rows of stockinette after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knitting-personal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/PXL_20260131_181856887-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1928","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3aAvV-mT","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1421,"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions\/1421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}