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

[aunty_marion]

That's pretty much how I 'eyeball' a plain knitted hat, too! I made a whole load of archery-target hats about a year ago, and mostly cast on 90 stitches and decreased in a multiple of either 10 or 9 for the top. I started decreasing a little earlier, though, and did four or five rows between each decrease row. I use Magic Loop on a long circular, so didn't have to go down to DPNs (thank goodness!).