Right Leaning
READ and understand the concept of the pattern. Adjust as you need for your measurements. Adjust gage to get your head size with a negative ease of about 1 inch. This pattern is for the round. Rounds 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28...etc: Knit your knits and purl your purls, until you get to [k12, ssk] then decrease every round until only 8 stitches remain. Starting after round 24 maintain pattern until hat measures 4-4.5 inches. Then begin crown shaping using the [k1p1] as the end of your row. Adjust markers.
Shown with a cast-on count of 104 stitches.
- Rounds 1-6: [K1, p1] 52 times.
- Round 7: [K1, p1] 12 times, k80.
- Round 9: K2, k2tog, [k1, p1] 12 times, M1R, k76.
- Round 11: K4, k2tog, [k1, p1] 12 times, M1R, k74.
- Round 13: K6, k2tog, [k1, p1] 12 times, M1R, k72.
- Round 15: K8, k2tog, [k1, p1] 12 times, M1R, k70.
- Round 17: K10, k2tog, [k1, p1] 12 times, M1R, k68.
- Round 19: K12, k2tog, [k1, p1] 12 times, M1R, k66.
- Round 21: K14, k2tog, [k1, p1] 12 times, M1R, k64.
- Round 23: K16, k2tog, [k1, p1] 12 times, M1R, k62.
- Round 25: [K24, ssk] 3 times, k2, [k1, p1] 11 times, ssk (100 sts).
- Round 27: [K23, ssk] 3 times, k2, [k1, p1] 10 times, k1, ssk (96 sts).
- Round 29: [K22, ssk] 3 times, k2, [k1, p1] 10 times, ssk (92 sts).
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