damn, that's cool

Very nice. That turned out better than my first try Jayne hat. Now I'm on #5 or 6.

marvy! mine's sitting right in front of me. i used 10 needles though, so my gauge must have been mad different than yours. truly beautiful and mighty shiny!
just a note. did you pick up the seams inside for the earflaps or use a tapestry needle? i used http://dryope.typepad.com/superfly/jayne_cobb_hat/ 's method and it looked great for me.

Thankee kindly, everyone. I looked at a few patterns prior to making the hat, and didn't realise until I already had the yarn that I should've bought bulky weight instead of worsted. D'oh! So I made do with what I had, as Ma Cobb would. I used the Superfly pattern and the other one on Craftster as guides, and adjusted for worsted weight yarn and US8 needles. (Cast on 96 stitches and went from there -- it's kind of roomy). I picked up the stitches from the inside of the hat for both earflaps and it seems to look a little different from the others I've seen. I used Knit Picks Wool of the Andes in Daffodil, Cranberry, and Carrot.

http://dryope.typepad.com/superfly/jayne_cobb_hat/

and

http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=19076.20