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Once the graft is finished, finishing a sideways Hat isn’t a lot different to finishing a bottom-up Hat – you’ll be left with a small circle at the top that needs closing. How big that hole is depends on your gauge, how many panels you’ve worked and how many ridges feed into the crown. The method of closing is the same every time.

1) As you come to finish your graft, if one needle has one stitch less than the other, use one of the adjacent ridges from the crown stitches as the final stitch.

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