I love this pattern, it’s very nice and the snowflakes are just right. Great weekend project!

Started on Dec 28, finished on Dec, 29.
As I wanted a hat for a newborn baby I used a light DK yarn and 3.0 mm needles for this pattern. The gauge is about 6.5 sts for an inch.
Knitted for child’s size (96 sts, 6 snowflakes), which came out good as newborn size hat.
I made a stupid mod for earflaps and they came out bigger than they should be. I knitted as pattern said up to the last earflap row, and then I thought that won’t be enough and made 4 more rows (2 increase rows + 2 WS rows). So I have 25 sts for each earflap instead of 21.
As I had more sts for earflaps than pattern calls, I CO for brim in following manner:
K25 (the earflap), CO32 sts for front, K25 (another earflap), CO14 sts for back, then joined in the rnd.