A Boy's Hat

I think I told you that I started making hats because I was trying to make my husband one but I made it too small so it ended up going to one of my daughters, then we added the ribbons, etc.. Anyway, since then, every mistaken hat (meaning that doesn't come out right because I am such a perfectionist) has gone to Chris, except for one that I made especially for him out of Alpahaca wool, super nice, soft, warm, and he lost it, like the second week of having it, and he lost the other ones as well.Hopefully somebody else has enjoyed them!

He found this nice, super soft and warm Superwash Merino Cashmere yarn and told me to make him one last hat, which I postponed forever! But finally this past weekend I made it. Now, here is the thing, my computer crashed like a month ago and I lost several documents, including the one where I had the pattern for hats and dimensions I had used for different sizes, luckily I have the pattern memorized, but not the dimensions, so this hat, this one especial hat, which should have taken me only 1 1/2 hours to make, kept me up Friday night until 2:30 a.m. and I worked on it all Saturday during Estrella's ballet lesson and the whole afternoon.

 Until I was finally happy with it. I undid it 10 times because the shape was not right, it was coming up pointy, or too short, etc, etc, The last time I did it I finally figured out that since I had cast on more than the original pattern I had to make some changes in the shaping of the crown.

So I casted 82 and did 10 rounds of 2 knits and 2 purls. Then I did 6 rounds of knit 5 and purl 5, then 6 rounds of purl the knits and knit the purls, does that make sense? to make the squares. On the 13 round I decrease 6 stitches by knitting 2 together every 5 stitches. Follow the square pattern for 5 more rounds and I decrease 1 every 4 by k2tog. I did four more rounds of the pattern and my next round I just knit all the way to the end and k2tog every 3. Knit three more rounds and k2tog every 2, three rounds and k2tog everyone other one, purl the next round and k2tog every other one. And it was done! even the seam is totally invisible inside and outside! Does this kind of like pattern make sense to you?

He loves it, and it is my favorite one because the shape is just perfect laying on the table or on his head. It even fits me, but it is his! and now winter is over, he he he!!