Just before Christmas 2021 I learned my favorite and now only aunt has ovarian cancer. I made this as a chemo cap for her, to her specs: “blues, with the bold color patterns you knit into your StephenWest shawls”.

MOD: Added 4st applied I-cord at cast on edge in Color C

Colors:
A: Wollmeise (Grandmere?) 22gr
B: unknown bamboo blend fingering
C: Cascade Heritage (Turquoise) 12gr
D: Cascade Heritage (Anis) start 9gr

RIBBING:
CO 124 sts long-tail; increase to 156sts

CHART 1; Switch to US2 needles; 39 repeats, no decreases

CHART 2; decrease 24sts, end 132sts

CHART 3; decrease 20sts, end 112sts

CHART 4; Omit Chart 5, decrease for crown as follows:

k12, k2tog around (8x), 104sts
k11, k2tog around, 96sts
k10, k2tog around, 88sts
k9, k2tog around, 80sts
k8, k2tog around, 72sts
k7, k2tog around, 64sts
k6, k2tog around, 56sts
k5, k2tog around, 48sts
k4, k2tog around, 40sts
k3, k2tog around, 32sts
k2, k2tog around, 24sts
k1, k2tog around, 16sts
k2tog around, 8sts