Article of Clothing with Aperture

A knitted stocking cap with aperture, comprising:

• (a) a yarn knitted into a surrounding sidewall about a longitudinal axis, said sidewall including a base plurality of rows, a descending plurality of rows, and an ascending plurality of rows, said surrounding sidewall having an interior surface, an exterior surface, a first margin, a second margin, an open end portion, and a closed end portion, wherein said first and second margins are partially adjacent to one another;
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• (b) an aperture therethrough from said interior surface to said exterior surface, said aperture is disposed in a portion of said first and second margins in-between said open end portion and said closed end portion, wherein said aperture is defined by an aperture first margin and an aperture second margin that respectively replace a portion of said first margin and said second margin, wherein said aperture first margin and said aperture second margin combined form an aperture periphery, wherein said descending and ascending plurality of rows correspond to said aperture first and second margins and said base plurality of rows correspond to said first and second margins remaining after said aperture first and second margins, wherein said descending plurality of rows each decrease by at least a stitch from said base plurality of rows and said ascending plurality of rows each increase by at least a stitch from said descending plurality of rows, wherein said aperture first and second margins form a smooth continuous transition from said exterior surface to said interior surface while having no reduction in said surrounding sidewall stretching flexibility.

A method of manufacturing a knitted stocking cap with an aperture, comprising the steps of:

• (a) providing a manual knitting machine having a carriage, knitting needles, a tapestry needle, a crochet hook, and yarn;
• (b) positioning said yarn in the knitting machine;
• (c) casting-on a selected number of base stitches to start a first row by moving the carriage, wherein a base plurality of rows is started, said first row starts an open end portion of a knitted surrounding sidewall of said knitted stocking cap;
• (d) continuing to add a selected number of rows to said base plurality of rows at said selected number of base stitches, wherein a first margin and a second margin are formed at said selected number of base stitches endpoints and continuing to form said knitted surrounding sidewall;
• (e) forming a descending plurality of rows by reducing stitches by at least one from said selected number of base stitches, wherein an aperture first margin and an aperture second margin of said aperture are formed at descending stitches end points of said descending plurality of rows stitch endpoints and continuing to form said knitted surrounding sidewall;
• (f) forming an ascending plurality of rows by increasing stitches by at least one from said descending plurality of rows stitch endpoints, wherein an aperture first margin and an aperture second margin of said aperture are formed at ascending stitch endpoints of said ascending plurality of rows stitch endpoints and continuing to form said knitted surrounding sidewall;
• (g) re-forming said base plurality of rows by continuing to form said ascending plurality of rows until said selected number of base stitches is equaled, wherein said first margin and said second margin are re-formed at said selected number of base stitches endpoints and continuing to form said knitted surrounding sidewall;
• (h) continuing to add a selected number of rows to said base plurality of rows at said selected number of base stitches, wherein said first margin and said second margin are formed at said selected number of base stitches endpoints and continuing to form said knitted surrounding sidewall;
• (i) forming a closed end portion of said knitted surrounding sidewall by sequentially reducing said selected number of base stitches for a selected number of rows until said reduced number of base stitches equals about one-fourth of said selected number of base stitches to form an end row stitching;
• (j) leaving a selected tail length of un-knitted yarn extension;
• (k) threading said tail into the tapestry needle and then inserting the tapestry needle into each stitch of said end row, then lifting each said stitch from the knitting needle and repeating until all said end row stitches are removed from the knitting needles;
• (l) inserting the tapestry needle and said tail into said end row stitching at a plurality of oppositely disposed points to complete said closed end portion;
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• (m) inserting the tapestry needle and said tail into said first and second end margins at said base stitch endpoints to weave together said first and second end margins to one another.