(note: this is a somewhat thicker fingering, but not quite sport)

After watching JohnnyVasquez’s Knitting a Hat Without a Pattern during KWC-Hortense’s Knit Your Wardrobe Summit February 2025 I grabbed my needles to make a hat for Ken! I already had a “gauge swatch” in the form of the sweater that I made for him at last year’s summit from Johnny’s class Knitting a Sweater Without a Pattern, so I measured his head and landed on 32 stitches for the hat body, then worked it up until about 75% of the full hat height (using scrap yarn to measure from planned crown to brim and knitting until 3/4 of the length) and then decreased 8 st every other row per the suggested decrease for ribbed hats in the presentation.

tubular cast on for 32 st in the round
R1-11: k1, p1 around
R12: k2tog, k1, p1 around (24st)
R12: k2, p1 around
R13: K2tog, p1 around (16 st)
R14: k1, p1 around
R15: K2tog around (8st)
cut yarn leaving at least 4-6” tail and thread through remaining 8 stitches, pull tight and attach pom pom

Also shown with Curvy Barbie’s Butterfly Sweater that I finished earlier in the week.

More Barbie projects & patterns by a range of designers at my favorites bundle Barbies

More sewing patterns for Barbie by a range of designers on my Pinterest board To Sew: Barbie