I made a very silly hat! Also, a very warm hat.
Want to make one just like it? I have plenty of yarn leftover — if you promise to make a hedgehog hat, I’ll send you my leftover Mushishi.
Project: Purple Hedgehog Hat
Pattern: Hedgehog
Designer: Mercè Janer
Available: FREE from Knitty.com
Yarn: Plymouth Yarns Mushishi #12
I picked up some Mushishi as a “courtesy purchase” while checking out a LYS. The long color changes seemed just right for the short-row hedgehog hat. I love how yarn and hat came together for this project. I know it’s not to everyone’s taste … but I love a silly hat sometimes!
The hat is worked flat, with each bump worked as a set of short rows. For the hat you work a row of bumps, work a couple stockinette rows (decreasing the overall number of stitches), and then work a row of bumps back the other way. I definitely put my new(ish) skill of “knitting both directions without turning” to good use with all those short rows!
In addition to a delightfully silly look, the bumps also trap air — this is a one WARM hat. I look forward to wearing it for more than a few minutes at a go, come this winter.
Remily Knits 
I have been dying to try this pattern out. but not for a hat I wanted to use the stitch to make an animal. I am crazy for making animals that I donate. I love the texture of this stitch and will eventually make up an fun animal featuring it.
I have a whole skein of that yarn, and I can’t figure out what to do with it. I would try that hat (it seems like a whole lot of fun to knit), but I would have to have a recipient in mind, otherwise it would just sit in my dresser all year!
Now that’s one unusual hat! It looks as though you did a great job. What fun!
I would love to make this for my granddaughters! How do I get the pattern?
The pattern is FREE on knitty.com.