This is a simple lace hat with a slanting leaf pattern. The pattern is adapted from a scarf pattern I found on this website:

This is a hat I made for myself. I have a large head, and so someone with a smaller head will need to make adjustments in the yarn weight, gauge, and/or number of pattern repeats to make a hat that fits. The hat is knitted on needles that are “too small” for the weight of the yarn; this makes it quite tight to knit and results in a thick, heavy...