Surely you jest!

My friend Mary Ann (whom I've known since our college days and who now lives several hundred miles away from me) has a nearly-three-year-old daughter. Every time Mary Ann sends out photos of her, it seems to me that Maggie is looking more and more mischievous (but in a good way!). So for Christmas I decided she needed a jester hat. Unfortunately, I was a littler slow with the knitting (as well as with the holiday cards, which didn't go out in the mail until a week ago), so she didn't actually get the hat until early January. At least it's still winter!

Anyway, I really lucked out with this one. It's based on the hat in
The Yarn Girls' Guide to Kid Knits: Patterns for Babies and Toddlers by Julie Carles and Jordana Jacobs. They say to cast on 86 stitches for a three-year-old's hat, so I added a few extra and rounded it up to 90 in a worsted-weight yarn. Good thing, too, because according to Mary Ann I managed to get the fit just right. It's not tight enough to be head-squishing, and not loose enough to be eye-covering. And there's a bit of room for growth, too!