One of my favourite movies is So I Married an Axe Murderer, so it’s gotta be karma that landed me the parent of a child with a gigantic head. It’s a virtual planetoid. It has its own weather system. (Keep this in mind as you note that in these photos my ten-month-old is wearing the largest of the hat’s three sizes!)

The hat is worked from the top down in extended half double crochet (skip to minute 1:38 in this video for a tutorial), with earflaps worked in rows after. You’ll have a finished project – complete with pom pom, chin closure and edging – in just a couple of hours.

Since the brim isn’t especially stretchy, make the size closest to the child’s head size, erring on the larger side. If the hat’s a bit too big (as in these photos), you can adjust the chin closure to compensate.

Big thanks and oodles of love to Marianela Pereira, Elizabeth Yow and Elise Struble for pattern testing!