My friend Jenn has the same problem I have when I comes to buying hats - we both have small heads. Sometimes this means shopping in the kids section sometimes. How embarrassing would it be to bump into a kid wearing the same hat as you? Haha :) Jenn has been hunting for a cable knit hat with a pompom for a while now. She actually asked me to make one for her last year, but with my pregnancy and prepping for S' arrival I just didn't have time. This year she asked me again, and I finally delivered :)
I went my favourite pattern site Ravelry to find a cable knit hat that would allow me to knit different sizes. But even if I couldn't find one I would have just bought a lower gauge yarn and used smaller needles and followed the pattern as is. I found a nice pattern called the Gingerbread Hat, which I liked because it had some additional design elements in addition to the cables.
I knit extra rows of the ribbing brim so that Jenn could fold it up - I thought the hat would look better this way, and I think I does :) I knit an additional 12 rows than what the pattern called for. I found the pattern to be pretty easy to knit - the first couple of rows I had to keep my eye on the pattern, but once I figured it out it was smooth sailing :)
I topped the hat off with a pompom made out of the remaining yarn. I found this video on YouTube that showed me how to make it. I crapped up the first one, and had my sister help me with my second attempt :D Note to self - always try a new technique with scrap yarn that you're not going to be using for your project - I almost ran out of yarn making the second one!
And voila.. Jenn's new hat :)
