A friend and former coworker is having a baby that we have all been excited about. Being a programmer, he has kept a lot of us in the loop with how things are progressing. So we all get to share the excitement, but the 3am feedings are all his!
Cast on 70 stitches on 7 gauge needles 16 inch round needles
The entire thing is just knit stitches, so no knitting and pearling.
After the first row, I put a twist in. So as I continue knitting, it kind of looks like a mobius strip.
Knit 8 rows.
Now I have to remove the twist. I knit up until the twist and knit these two stitches together. Going forward all of the rows will now be on the same side.
I knit about 5 inches from the twist.
Every 10 stitches, I K2Tog.
Once you get down to about 20 stitches, or it is just to hard to work on the needles, cast off.
I Then made a bunch of Pompoms and sewed them onto the hat. I arranged them so that they shaped the hot to be a little like a fin or elf haf, where all the pompoms spill down the front.
