Same as It Ever Was

Yarn: fingering weight sock yarn, approximately 100 g/3.5 oz. (pattern is designed to use an entire skein)

Sizes: To fit head circumference of 16, 18 (20, 22, 24) in./40.5, 46 (51, 56, 61) cm

This is far from the first hat of this style, but none of the existing patterns for a seamless, one-piece, double-thickness hat that I found had the swirl-style crown that I usually use. So I found a way to mimic the swirl decreases in a top-down crown, and to make things a bit less fussy to start, I combined a few techniques to create an inside-out cast-on that requires no waste yarn or crochet hook and looks virtually identical to the finish for a bottom-up hat.

While it was originally designed to use a single skein of fingering weight yarn, an additional instruction sheet will allow you to knit this hat using any yarn at any gauge.

• This hat is designed to use all of a single skein of yarn. To maximize your yarn usage, a kitchen or jeweler’s scale is used to determine when to start decreasing.
• A photo tutorial is included for the cast-on method recommended in the pattern.

This pattern has been professionally tech edited.