Are there buy buttons on the side of the page? If so, you've caught this pattern on one of the handful of days every year when it's available! If not, read on for details of where it went and what to do if you want to be notified the next time it's available.

A few years ago I got overwhelmed by my back catalog, retired most of my earlier work, and launched Tiny Nonsense. That gave me space to make Cool New Stuff! But some people missed the earlier things, so I make many of the retired patterns available for a few days once or twice a year.

• If you see the buy buttons on this page, you’ve caught it on one of the days it’s available! You can buy it just like usual.

• If you don’t see the buy buttons on this page, then it’s not currently available. It will probably be available the week after Thanksgiving and for a few days in June or July.

• If you want to hear when the retired patterns come back, subscribe to the mailing list or patreon, or keep an eye on my instagram.

Carom verb to collide and rebound, to ricochet

So I need to make a little confession. I have this tendency, when I finish a project, to go ‘hmmm, so what would happen if I tweaked this bit over here a little, and maybe zapped this bit over here?’ Before you know it, I have a second project on the needles. That totally happened here, and you get to benefit from my indecisive nature!

The pattern includes both versions of the hat. The first, shown here without a folded brim, uses a larger version of the stitch motif and is lovely and lacy. The second, shown here with a folded brim, uses a bit more compact version of the motif and is solid instead of lacy. Either one can be knit with or without the folded brim, and the crowns of both are an absolute delight.

Each hat is written in three sizes (90, 105, or 120 stitch cast on for one, 91, 104, 117 stitch cast on for the other), and you should feel free to adjust your gauge a bit to fine tune the fit of the pieces. Just be sure that you’re working at a gauge that gives you a fabric you like with your chosen yarn!

I recommend working at something around 5.25, 5.5, or 5.75 stitches per inch, and I’ve included a table to help you figure out what gauge you’ll want to use for your size.

With that range of sizes and gauges, the hats will fit a head between 18 and 25 inches (with lots of points in between).

These are perfect for you if:

• You like to keep your options open
• You’ve got a lone skein of DK looking for a project
• You think two patterns are more fun than one

They’re not for you if:

• You don’t like charts (the pattern uses charts)
• You hate swatching (you need to swatch to check your needle size)

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