The scanner didn't do justice to this baby hat. The colors are off and you can't really tell that it is a mushroom cap or toque that puffs out in the center. It was knit in Nylamb on size 2 dpns. The curlicues on top are done by casting on 20 stitches, knitting in the front and back of each stitch then binding off purlwise.




The hat is from a set including a dress and cardigan from Dale of Norway's baby book #124 which is amazingly still in print and available for sale from HERE.

It is the same pattern book I used for the bunnies and ducks and garden tools cardigan seen below . If I have time before the baby is born I may make the bunnies and ducks hat from pattern book 124 but use different colors.