I couldn’t find a gauge for this hat, so I measured around my head, found out how many stitches an inch I needed to make the cast on edge fit, and went from there. That worked well for the circumference, but my row gauge was evidently way off. It’s too big! But I was really just making it for fun, and it was fun. So that’s what matters. Plus, I just needed a project on larger needles to give my fingers a break from the size 1 DPNs.

I gave it a low rating just because it didn’t specify a gauge, and most of the difficulty is the required math to find a proper gauge. (Mine was about 5 stitches an inch, but I bet 4 would have been fine.)

I sold this for $20 at the Making Strides fundraiser on 9/26/15.