My 8yo son asked me to make him a hat with gold stars, so we designed this together. Really, it’s just a regular stocking cap with the addition of a chart I drew up one afternoon. If you want a larger or smaller hat, I suggest you adjust the gauge, as the chart repeats every 20 stitches.

When I watched the movie Transsiberian, I was so taken with the hat Emily Mortimer wore as the thrilling adventure played out, I had to copy it and make one for myself. I published a clumsy, written out pattern on my blog in 2009, and now I’ve finally cleaned up the instructions, fixed the error in the decreases and included a chart. Eventually...