One night at dinner Jason suggested that he would like for me to knit a hat for him. He didn't really care the color as long as it was dark. He liked the idea of twining which I interpreted to be cables and he agreed. But the main thing he wanted as part of his gift was that I did not buy yarn....that I used something that I had on hand.
I found a very nice dark brown/charcoal alpaca yarn in the drawer in my zodiac chest. I chose for the pattern a pattern that can be found among my adobe acrobat files as kapapattern002-2.pdf
The pattern called for size 9 needles and that is what I am using. However, the yarn was not as heavy as what I would want with size 9 needles, so I doubled it.
While looking at Interweave's article I found another one on the site about making hats that fit:
