Then I worked in my stitch pattern (Stockinette for the body, Seed Stitch for the brim) until it was the desired circumference. An average adult hat is 20″ so I kept knitting until my piece was ...

Pick up and knit (see Glossary) 100 (110, 120, 130) sts evenly spaced along top edge of band, working into the back of the sts below the selvedge. Join for working in rnds.

The hat, which can resemble a tea cozy, was designed by Kat Coyle, who owns The Little Knittery, a knitting shop in California, and provided the pattern and knitting instructions to the Pussyhat ...

They started knitting six weeks ago. Buchanan had hoped to have 200 hats, but “you’ve got to work sometime.” Hats, at $20 a piece, were selling quickly.

While the red caps and pink knit hats invite comparison, they aren't perfect analogues of each other; the homemade pussyhats, in shades ranging from fuchsia to powder pink to mauve (and a few that ...