Recs for Good Hats

[sporky_rat]

I'm wanting to make hats for my family for Christmas and I'm having trouble find just a simple, plain watchcap/toboggen whatever the hell you call it.   I have been looking on Ravelry (Hi! I'm Gnomerat!) and want some recommendations.  I can handle cables and increases and decreases and ribbing and all that, but my family is a little rough on hats. 

So if anyone has any recommendations (some of them are actually going to be getting those fingerless cabled gloves Fetching), I'd love to know! 

Comments

[girlpearl]

I made the Irish hiking hat for my father, and it was super-quick and looked fancier than it felt to knit, if you know what I mean.

There's also the gusto beanie but I had a problem with that one. IIRC it knit up the size of a small child's cap in my hands. No idea how.

And for my sister I liked the palindrome hat, which is kind of the opposite of the Irish hiking hat, knits very quickly and generously sized.