Paco mentioned he had no hat, and I suggested I should knit him something outrageous with tentacles.

• he e-mailed me many images
• I sketched and started, but things slowed down while I didn’t have his measurements
• tried on the crown at Mother’s Dumplings; nope, not too big
• blue hat finished 15 jan; seems large at 116-st CO, figure he mismeasured
• restarted blue hat 11 Sept 2011, knit brim in PD session, finished 25 Oct
• 5 Nov ripped out existing octopus hump, decided to restart with different approach
• made first tentacles at games night; people are like, “what are you making??…oh, I get it”
• ran out of polyfil; made triangular prism and pillow out of fabric scraps, filled with Astrakhan waste yarn, sewed into place inside
• was still sewing down tentacles at dim sum birthday brunch
• $8 total, using .32 skeins Paprika

blue: 19.5 sts = 10 cm
CO 104 sts for <59cm head
10 rounds 1x1 rib, stockinette another 24 rows
deep crown: dec 8 evenly on alt rows in spiral until 8 rem, close