Kemmerer Cap is the companion knit to Kemmerer Cowl!With an asymmetric earflap brim, this garter-stitch hat has a little bit of a whimsical design, but isn’t quite as drastic or dramatic as Driggs, for example. The .PDF is an instant download, and it’s a moderately big file, with plenty of tutorial-style photos to help ease you in to this slightly strange hat construction.

Knit Kemmerer Cap with very minimalist materials—you don’t even a DPN. Kemmerer Cap is essentially knit flat, but also features very minimal finishing, so it can be made with just a skein of Malabrigo Washted or a good substitute worsted-weight yarn, two DPNs, or a pair of straight knitting needles.

This version knits up in about a half skein of Malabrigo Washted when knit at the listed gauge.

Gauge is 9 sts and 17 rows over 2”. Please be sure to check your gauge. (You can also check the fit of the hat at about the second step in the design.)

Materials:
About 110 yards of Malabrigo Yarn Washted
2 DPNs in US7-8/4.5-5.0mm, or size needed for gauge
Countless (8+) removable stitch markers
Tapestry needle

Fair warning: in terms of style/format, I tried a belt-and-suspenders approach for this one. It includes both written instructions and paragraph-text summaries of what’s going on. Some may like this; some may find it incredibly pedantic. If you don’t need the summaries, please ignore them.

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Q: Cool idea, bro, but how do I even wear this?

A: I like it with the join towards the back, so that the earflap kind of comes down by the nape of the neck. Up to you, though!

Q: Hey, this hat is ridiculous! Why isn’t there a kid’s size? Kids like ridiculous hats.

A: There’s really no valid excuse for not having an official kids’ size on a silly hat; I know kids are often the best recipients of silly hats, having a better appreciation for the finer things. But at the moment:

1) it already fits some gradeschool and older kids as-is, though they may find it long and want to flip the brim up.
2) I am undecided as to whether I want to size this down by changing the yarn.
3) The third pattern in this series does include a kid’s size in the same yarn as the grownup version, at least tentatively, at this point.

Anyway, that’s my unsolicited explanation on the lack of a kid size currently. It’s definitely a potential addition in the future, because this would be pretty ridiculously adorable on a toddler/small baby.