Note that designer’s link to how to pinch, crucial part of pattern, no longer exists

from pattern description:

A comfortable and warm beret which, when worn incorrectly, will make you look like Whoopi Goldberg when she was on Startrek The Next Generation.

So it’s the year 2057 and the world has been taken over by aliens/robots/fascists. I think they might be Fascist Robo-Aliens. Anyway, there you are, knitting with rat fur in your over-populated Nu-Hovel(tm) sub-sewer home base. You’re thinking, hey, those slave pens of Overlord Wargoth the Depraved sound kind of good right now. Maybe less chole...