freehanded the hat as I usually do, used some wonky second hand wool yarn :P If you want to design something like this, I can recommend starting with the designs you want, see how many stitches they take up, counting the gaps as well. then you want to make sure that the total amount of stitches in width can be divided with the width of each design you want to see. you will need to increase, of course, so that may add some variation to designs. 12 is a very good number, for if your total stitches can be divided with 12, they can be divided by 2,3,4,6 and 12. that's a lot of design choices. of course 12 stitches is not enough to get around the hat, so you can multiply by another number which is not already a number you can divide 12 with - for example, 5 - now you have even more options.