simple hat

This is a simple hat.  It has 2 advantages: It is sort of poufy, so it 
doesn't mash your hair, but it still comes down over your ears.  This is 
Atlanta after all, not North Dakota.  And second, it is straight up from 
the ribbing to the top decreases, so that one can easily adapt any design 
to it.  I think in its original incarnation it had a snowflake pattern on 
it.  The current version, worn by DD, and much admired, for some odd 
reason, by her friends, is a variegated acrylic that my MIL made years 
ago.  (_Years_, she died almost 10 years ago, and it was long before 
that).  These directions are retroverted from that hat.

Material:  Worsted weight yarn, something less than 100 grams, but beyond 
that I'm clueless.  Last time I made it, it was stripes from 3 different 
odd balls.

Needles: 6 and 8 (US)
Gauge: 16 sts and 22 rows = 4 inches on size 8

Using smaller needles cast on 100 sts.
Work K1P1 ribbing for 1 inch.

Change to larger needles.  Work stockinette stitch until 8" from beginning.
Next K row: *K2 K2tog. repeat from * (75 sts)
work 1 row even
next row: *K1 K2tog. repeat from * (50 sts)
work 1 row even
next row: *K2tog repeat from * (25 sts)
work one row even
next row: K1 *K2tog repeat from * (13 sts)

Cut yarn leaving a tail.  Run yarn through sts on needle and pull up.
Sew seam, if worked flat.  Top with pom-pom.  

Alice Hickcox
ahickco@emory.edu

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