Inspired by Kaffe. Around thirty years ago, he changed my look upon knitting profoundly. Before that, I was a miserable serial replicator of Latvian mittens patterns. In caps, of course.
Cast on 8×17=136 stitches (two-colour picot edge works better with an odd number of stitches in a segment); after the edge, added a stitch in each segment (8×18=144 stitches around the cap).
Since the floats were rather long (max 18 stitches), used back-ladder jacquard for managing them (see the last two images).
Considering knitting a replica in me favourite greys.
A chart enclosed (scroll down): the red and the pink columns represent the placement of the ladder-back jacquard columns at the back of the fabric. Just assume they’re black and white correspondingly if you are using another float management technique.