My daughter sent me a picture of a red hat and said “Do you have the pattern for this? I did not so I tried to reverse engineer it.

Big details: Raised texture on every other row and (I think) different widths.

First Attempt: Alternate dc and sc to get the widths, see if the texture just happens.
Result: Nope. Just a flat gray hat. I’ll have to do something to this to make it more interesting.

So I let this sit for awhile while I did other things (pretty much made it in an hour or so) and when I finally got back to it, I realized it’s an excellent hat, thick and warm. But it needed something. So I made a small heart for it which was too small, and then made a larger heart that I appliquéd over it. (Barbara Summers’ Perfect Heart.) I may put a row of plain black around it to make it stand out more, but essentially, this hat is done.

Basic Hat:
Note: Instead of a turning chain, I do one sc, and then a sc on top of that sc to count as a full dc at the beginning of a row.

Magic Circle
Row 1: 12 dc
Row 2: 2 sc in ea dc (24 sc)
Row 3: I dc in first sc, 2 dc in next sc, repeat around, sl st to close (36 dc)
Row 4: 1 sc in first two dc, two sc in next dc, repeat around, sl st to close (48 sc)
Row 5: I dc in first three sc, 2 dc in next sc, repeat around, sl st to close (60 dc)
Row 6: 1 sc in first four dc, two sc in next dc, repeat around, sl st to close (72 sc)
Row 7 to the row where the depth of the hat is reached: One stitch in ea stitch, alternating dc and sc rows (72).
Rib: Standing sc to stand in for FPDC, then alternate FPDC and BPDC around, sl st to close. Repeat until rib is the depth desired, putting FP in FP and BP in BP.