I'm a huge fan of the show Firefly and its accompanying movie Serenity. I was even planning on cosplaying as Kaylee! That being said, one day I decided that I was missing out by not having a hat similar to the one made popular by the episode "The Message" and Jayne Cobb played by Adam Baldwin. Let's just say, "a man walks down the street in that hat, people know he's not afraid of anything."
Lion Brand Wool-Ease in Gold, Pumpkin, and Paprika. It's still not perfect/true to the colors of the original, but I like it anyway!
And apparently others did too, because I've already had a few orders for hats since I posted these pictures. I would be selling them on my Etsy, but I'd rather not be sued because someone copyrighted the hat for sale. So for now, I'm open for commissions if anyone is interested!
The pattern is based off of this one from Smariek Knits. I changed a few things to make it work for me.
I'm sure you didn't know this about me, but I disregard gauge on a regular basis. Instead I just complain every time I have to rip out a hat or whatever else I'm working on at the time. (It happens a lot.) That's exactly how this project was figured too. Even though the pattern calls for size 7 needles (which are some of the only ones I have/use in DPN's) and worsted weight yarn the CO of 96 stitches was WAAAY too many for my small-ish head. So I went back to a hat that I had made up and cast on 84 instead. I followed the color chart for the hat and then skipped to decrease row 3 at the end. For the ear-flaps I picked up 19 stitches and left 23 in between. I did 24 rows before the decreases, and then started at row 5.
Oh and my shirt is from Threadless! (But it's not available anymore.)
I'm sure you didn't know this about me, but I disregard gauge on a regular basis. Instead I just complain every time I have to rip out a hat or whatever else I'm working on at the time. (It happens a lot.) That's exactly how this project was figured too. Even though the pattern calls for size 7 needles (which are some of the only ones I have/use in DPN's) and worsted weight yarn the CO of 96 stitches was WAAAY too many for my small-ish head. So I went back to a hat that I had made up and cast on 84 instead. I followed the color chart for the hat and then skipped to decrease row 3 at the end. For the ear-flaps I picked up 19 stitches and left 23 in between. I did 24 rows before the decreases, and then started at row 5.
Oh and my shirt is from Threadless! (But it's not available anymore.)
