The pattern for this hat came to me in the form of a challenge. A friend of mine, Barb, saw a version of this hat on the show Killing Eve. She wanted this hat, but couldn’t quite figure which of the thousands (?) of cable patterns were being used.

I had the good fortune to take a sock design class from Cookie A in January 2010. For the class, she had a stack of pattern books from which we could choose our knit pattern, if we didn’t have one already in mind. As I was flipping through the pages, this pattern jumped out at me, I had to design a sock with this pattern. We (Cookie and I) fid...