Red/blue hat is the size L.

Purple hat is for an older kid, so I still used the size L and same needle size (US size 5), but I knit the earflaps to be slightly longer and also the “body” of the hat to be a little longer. For this hat, I also knit it in the round.

All the yarn is debbie bliss baby cashmerino except the sparkly light purple one, which is Vanna’s Glamour Yarn from Michael’s :)

Yes, if you stick with the original pattern and knit it on straight needles, there are so many yarn ends to weave in at the end…. Too many…. so I tried for a week to figure out how to knit this top-down, but it didn’t look as good. Don’t do kfb if you’re knitting top-down…. the increases do not look as crisp and nice as the k2tog/p2togs when decreasing from bottom up.