Monica Knits

Baby Cap
Design Features: This cap is knitted of acrylic, fingering weight yarn in cream with blue trim and accented with contrasting I-cord.
The body of this two-color cap is knitted flat to the crown, starting with 3/4" of 1 x 1 ribbing in blue and followed by 4-1/2" of mock or baby cable pattern in cream.
Then stitches are cast-on to the end of the last pattern row to increase the circumference 1" and all rows are knitted. (At this point I chose to join the crown in the round and alternate knit and purl rows, using circular needles, to create the garter stitch pattern.) The crown is shaped with symmetrically spaced decreases until 20 sts remain on the needle. The yarn is cut and pulled through these remaining stitches to close the hole.
The neckband stitches are picked up along the base in contrasting blue yarn and worked as 1 x 1 ribbing. A center eyelet row is knitted for I-cord or ribbon insertion.

Tips:
Change yarn colors on the right side rows.
The original pattern called for a ribbon tie, but I found ribbon slipped undone too easily so I knit an I cord to lace through the eyelet row.

The pattern is found on pages 27-28 of the 1958 edition of: "The New Lux Knitting Book," from my mother-in-law's collection.