HOW TO KNIT YOUR PUSSY HAT
There’s obviously two ways of knitting a square shaped hat, narrow and long with two side seams, or wide and low with a seam at the back and over the top. I did it the wide way. Don’t worry, the cat’s ears appear automatically when it’s seamed up, no shaping needed!
Use a bulky yarn, or multiple thinner yarns. Nice and warm and it knits fast, so you can throw another Pussy Hat together for a friend. If, like me, you use a yarn suitable for needles no.6 cast on 76 stitches (for the wide ‘n low panel!) and start knitting a border (2 knit-2 purl) for at least 10 rows. After that, knit along in any stitch you fancy until your panel is somewhere between 18 and 24 centimeters high, depending on how you want to wear your Pussy Hat (a rolled up border style needs 24 cm in total). Cast off, stitch the sides together, forming the back seam and then close the top of the hat, placing the back seam in the middle of your now double layered panel. Hey presto! Wear it with panache and get knitting on Hat no. 2!
(For the narrow and long way, a cast-on of 40 stitches is needed, beginning and ending with a 2knit-2purl border, knitting a panel twice as high as your preferred hat, somewhere between 36 and 48 cm.)