Pink and Gray Cat Hat

This was a kit I picked up on vacation. It is a DMC Top This which had the cat plush head already made with a ball of striping yarn. I didn't use the included pattern on the ball band as it only included sizes for toddler and small adult. It does mention that directions for additional sizes are on their website, but I assumed those would require a second ball of yarn. I only had the one, and had no easy way to get another so I just made adjustments to their pattern (see below). Even with the adjustments The hat was just a bit too short so I added flaps to cover my ears using a cotton dish yarn.

Adjustments if anyone else needs to make a bigger hat with one ball or I ever make another:

     I used Size 8 needles, and cast on 84 sts. I worked in K2P2 ribbing for 12 rounds as the larger size of the ball band pattern indicates, though I wish I had stopped when the yarn changed from grey to the multi-colored band (that would have been around 10 rnds). Then I knitted in stockinette st for 25 rnds. I began decreasing, knit 10 sts, then K2tog, cont for the rnd. Then the next rnd would be knit 9 sts, then K2tog, cont for the rnd. etc. When you have 7 sts, cut and draw through them, the bring the thread inside the hat.

Optional Flaps:

     I used Knitpicks Dishie in Silver which I think matched the grey in the hat very well. Mark two points on the bottom of the hat equally spaced from each other. Pick up 14 sts along the cast on edge, and knit for four rows. 

RS rows: knit 1, SSK, knit until three sts remain, K2tog, knit 1. 

WS rows: purl

When you have four sts: knit 1, K2tog, knit 1.
Change the yarn to what you have left over from the hat kit ball, and knit icord.
Repeat on the other side.