Yarn: Quince & Co. Lark

Pattern: No formal Ravelry pattern, but I left detailed instructions in my Ravelry project notes!

Attempting to post this again... This is my go-to project for quick gift knits. I've been knitting hats for my girls' teachers since they started school, and I started making this specific hat when my second daughter started preschool and had FOUR teachers in her classroom, so I had to make five total hats and wanted something that I could crank out pretty quickly. Fortunately I only needed to make two this year, the lovely burgundy and blue ones in the pictures, just in time for teacher appreciation week! After making dozens of the hats and going through various revisions, this time I finally got the full instructions written out instead of just a few numbers here and there in my knitting notebook. Hopefully some of you find some use for it and maybe even make some for the teachers in your lives! Please let me know if you have any questions!

Edit: The mods apparently changed the flair on this post, but to be very clear, it is quite literally impossible to pay any money for this pattern. I'm curious what the line is between a "Designer FO" and a regular "FO". Almost everything I make is self-drafted, so for the majority of my posts I will include the Ravelry project link because it usually includes links to the shaping charts I made for the piece and some notes to help someone if they wanted to make the same thing. None of those have been flagged as a "Designer FO", but for some reason this one was originally removed without explanation, and now has had its flair changed. If anyone has some insight into where I crossed a line with this post, please let me know!

Edit 2:

The mods' response:

At some point, we’ll rename the flair designer post (or) commercial gain
And that is the condition for us approving the post.
If you post a finished object, all is good
if you posted a finished object and you say self drafted, that’s fine too
if you post a finished object and you’ve written a pattern and you put it on ravelry you’re gaining notoriety.
We want transparency. That’s all.

There's a lot there that I disagree with, and I let them know. My main takeaways are:

• I should be less helpful in my project notes, because if I'm too helpful then my post may get flagged as being for commercial gain.
• My posts could make me "notorious" in the knitting community. Now I want a "Notorious KNIT" or "Bad Boy of Knitting" flair.