This is far from the first hat of this style, but none of the existing patterns for a seamless, one-piece, double-thickness hat that I found had the swirl-style crown that I usually use. So I found a way to mimic the swirl decreases in a top-down crown, and to make things a bit less fussy to start, I combined a few techniques to create an inside-out cast-on that requires no waste yarn or crochet hook and looks virtually identical to the finish for a bottom-up hat.

• This hat is designed to use all of a single skein of fingering weight yarn. To maximize your yarn usage, a kitchen or jeweler’s scale is used to determine when to start decreasing.
• A photo tutorial is included for the cast-on method recommended in the pattern.

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