I was tickled with how this turned out, it has a sort of Suess-ish quality that seems truly magical to me. I think it found it’s rightful home with this cute little witch too (so does the guy in the 4th photo!) I did a few mods to get the crinkles, pleats & curly tip:

Follow the pattern as written for the smaller adult size until 40 sts remain, then increase rnds between decs rnds by 1 rnd after each dec rnd ( so the next one will be 3 rnds, the following one 4, then 5 rnds etc- instead of the 2 rnds the pattern calls for) until only 5 sts remain, then work i-cord over those 5 sts for 10 rnds (your last decrease rnd would have had 9 rnds after it so you are just continuing that strategy) I used a small velcro hair curler during blocking to achieve the curly tip, and invisably whip stitched the crinkles and pleats in place with matching sock yarn.

Interesting aside, I recently found out that my 10th great grandmother Mary Towne Easty was hung as a witch in Salem in 1692, along with her sister Rebeccah Towne Nurse and my other 10x great aunt, Sarah Towne Cloyce, nearly died in captivity for almost 2 years on the same charge (all were innocent of course)- this came as a real surprise because I am the 1st person in my immediate family to be born in U.S., everyone I am related to is from Ireland, Scotland, Africa or Canada- turns out, the Easty family lost everything in the aftermath of the witch trials and one grandson emigrated to New Brunswick, Canada, founding a branch of my mothers’ family. I had no idea any of us were related to American colonists, who knew? The magical witchy thing just seems to come with the genes in my family! smile (My sister is wayyyyy mormon and has been diligently doing genealogical research and DNA testing, she only recently was able to substantiate this far back in our Mothers’ ancestral line)