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From the designer:
During the Firefly episode called “The Message”, one of the characters receives a package in the post. Tough guy Jayne Cobb receives a hat from his mother, to keep him warm on his travels. There’s just something about this hat that makes many people who’ve seen it want one of their own. The Internet is littered with hand knitters who’ve interpreted what they’ve seen in their own way.

This is my interpretation. I owe a debt to the designer of Heather’s Firefly Hat. Heather’s design was one of two I found when I started to do my first hat, and the closer to what I see when I watch “The Message”. I was so obsessed with trying to match the original that I kept pausing the DVD, going over to the screen, and counting rows of stitches. I wanted a slightly smaller hat, but couldn’t work it out with even decreases. I wanted a better color match, but orange acrylic yarn seems to only come in traffic cone orange. I like the wool colors, though, and prefer how the hat comes out using wool. It’s a little smaller in wool than it is in acrylic, although both are fairly large. After pausing the DVD many times and looking at several still pictures, I can’t determine exactly how the earflaps end. There have to be ties, because Jayne wears it flaps-up at one point.

There are more than four dozen Browncoats from as far away as Australia wearing these. Some even went to the premiere of Serenity.

Pattern info
Pattern is written for knitting in the round with 2 circulars.

Additional Yarn information
Hat is knit with the yarn doubled, so bulky weight could be used instead. Recommended colors are persimmon, gold and orange.
Recommended wool yarns:
Cascade 200 wool in gold (color 7827 or 7826)
Cascade 200 wool in orange (color 7825)
Cascade 200 wool in persimmon (color 4146)

Recommended acrylic yarns:
Coats & Clark Red Heart in Gold
Coats & Clark Red Heart in Orange
Coats & Clark TLC Essentials in Persimmon