This hat was created for my cousin’s husband, Richard. He is a cartoonist by trade, and has sadly been stricken with Parkinson’s disease. He recently had a deep brain stimulator implanted, which meant his head got shaved. The loss of natural insulation prompted a call for a hat to fit a big head, which I answered with the following pattern. The big head is approximately 23 ½ inches in diameter.

The yarn is Miss Babs Cosmic in Funny Paper. I stumbled across it at SAFF (which I also stumbled across, but that’s another story), and thought the intersection of a cartoonist needing a hat and a yarn named Funny Paper was, at the very least, serendipitous.

It is essentially a ribbed hat, but the ribs offset every 8 rows, resulting in strips of ribbing. Kind of like comic strips… The crown decreases eat up the pattern, which allows continuing the pattern essentially to the top, ending in a 5 pointed star.