The Professor's Beanie Hat
Earlier this year the Scientific Director at my day job moved on to a new post. As well as a big collective leaving present, some of us thought we'd like to give him more personal souvenirs of his time at ICMS. One of my colleagues suggested I knit him a new hat to wear while standing outside on his cigarette breaks. So this is what I came up with. As a hat for a mathematician, of course there are mathematical features - simple ones that could be made quickly and which don't detract from a classic shape. There are powers of two in the rib, the Fibonacci sequence in the sides and then a seven-sided (heptagonal) crown. It's knitted in the round with one skein of Rowan's Lima, an amazingly soft, baby alpaca yarn that's approximately aran weight. I picked this colour because it's similar to the ICMS logo colours but it's much richer, with a lot of detail in the drifting shades. Different yarns will work but beware of tension etc. I don't have...