Nice little hat. Knit for my Secret Santa recipient, brother-in-law (as a supplemental gift). Hard to give it up, but I did not knit this for myself. Feels nice to wear. I tried it on my head and my husband’s (bigger) head so far and it fit both of us nicely. I think BIL is in between our sizes.

The pattern was a little confusing to me. Mostly the table at the top of page 2. I wasn’t sure why you would knit a smaller hat more length. Now I think maybe the larger size has more decrease rounds and therefore you would knit less length before decreasing, but it’s still not clear to me. To help, I looked at the pattern author’s projects to see what she did. Seemed she knit to 8.5” and then decreased. So that’s what I did. If I knit this again, I’ll likely do that again.

edit: upon further thought, I’d make it a tad shorter before decreases by 1/2 - 1 inch.

If you want to do the 3 sided decreases, you would cast on either 108 or 126 stitches depending on size and follow decreases for 3 sided.

If you want to do 4 sided decreases, you would cast on either 104 or 120 stitches.

I think this pattern could be organized and formatted better to make it clearer. Free pattern, so you take as it comes. In the end, I have a nice hat to gift.

The yarn makes a nice finished product. Due to the bamboo, it doesn’t have bounce as you knit. Feels a little like knitting cotton. The fabric feels very soft and absolutely no itchiness. Good choice for a hat. The color is indigo and yes, it’s blue, but in artificial light, looks to be gray and is hard to tell it’s blue. In sunlight, it looks blue. I like the color. If you’re looking for a really saturated blue blue, this wouldn’t be it.