The pattern creates a distinct texture that is both striking to look at and comfortable to wear.

I wasn’t sure what size to make, so I chose a medium and guessed correctly. The hat is VERY stretchy, so I would recommend sizing down if you’re debating which size to make.

Cast on with Old Norwegian cast-on to make it stretchy.

The body of the hat was fun to make. You had to pay attention to what you were doing, and when I got into a rhythm, it was very relaxing. If I lost focus, I would mess up though. I had to frog two times because I messed up on the mistake rib pattern. I knit the body to be 8” from the cast-on.

The decrease section of the hat was a real challenge since it was hard to keep track of how to stay in the mistake rib pattern.

On the decrease rows, my strategy was to make the decrease and then look ahead to the next section to find a stitch that I knew had to be a knit stitch (since it was knit all the way up the hat). Then I looked to the stitch before that knit stitch. If it was a knit stitch, I knew I would have to purl it. If it was a purl stitch, I would have to knit it. Then I figured out the rest of the section based on that.

I did the same thing for row 2 of the decrease section. The only difference is I just knit the decrease stitch.