My computer guy husband is also a licensed P.I. Of course he needed a deerstalker!

He asked me to make deerstalkers for his other P.I. colleagues last Christmas.

I will tell my little secret here - I don’t like felting. Whew, there, I said it! I prefer to make something I can unravel if things go amiss. So, I knit things on smaller than the yarn calls for needles. This pattern can also be made with doubled worsted weight yarn.

There’s another secret to the design of this hat, regarding the brim.