Great pattern. I’d easily make this hat again.

Pattern Notes:
Cast on with the thumb-forefinger method. I was concerned it would not be stretchy enough, but it worked out fine. The backwards e cast on is stretchy but 120 stitches was too many to count with very fine thread.

In the decreasing, shaping the crown of the hat: when I was at 18 stitches, I started decreasing on every round instead of every 2nd round to reduce the pointiness. Looking at the 3rd picture, the hat is still slightly pointy.