A quick and easy one-skein/scrap project, this little hat pattern has a lot of room to play. The hat is begins with a simplified, super-stretchy tubular cast on and from there is built around a set of traveling bands inspired by Cat Bordhi’s Coriolis socks that swirl up the hat and give any stripes a wavy effect. The pattern is written with a g...

This cabled earflap hat is worked from the bottoms of the flaps up. The two earflaps are worked separately, back and forth, then joined in the round, with the rest of the hat cast on. The whole hat is symmetrical in a way that’s nonobvious from the front but still cuts the number of instructions in half.