Cylon Centurion Pattern is Up!

Updated with yardage
Updated 05/06/09 Numbering corrected.

So I spent the day watching the Obama festivities and deciphering the notes I made when making the Cylon Centurion hat. They were very different from what I posted previously, which was my first draft, so I apologize to anyone who started a hat using the old instructions. I knit a sample with the new instructions and the pattern makes sense to me so I hope it makes sense to you. I am up for any suggestions or comments, I am very new to pattern writing so I may be confusing or verbose. If you have any problems you can let me know.

You can download the pattern PDF

Color A- gray and silver
Color B- silver
Color C- red
Color D- gray

I used Karabella Aurora Bulky (2 balls, 108 yards), Karabella Glimmer (not quite 2 balls, roughly 240 yards, and Karabella Stardust (a few yards) on Size 10.5 to make an adult large. I paired them like so: Color A was 1 strand of Aurora Bulky, 2 strands of Glimmer, Color B was 4 strands of Glimmer, Color C was 2 strands of Stardust, and Color D was just the Aurora Bulky. If you have a smaller head, you can adjust by switching to a smaller gauge yarn. I made a tester out of worsted (Red Heart gray for colors A, B, D and 1 strand of Stardust for C) and it made a child size hat.

Cast on 6 stitches divided evenly on 3 needles

kfb 6 times, place marker indicating start of row

Hat Crown
Color A
Row 1- (k1, kfb) repeat to marker
Row 2- (k2, kfb) repeat to marker
Row 3- (k3, kfb) repeat to marker
k all even rows 4-14
Row 5- (k4, kfb) repeat to marker
Row 7- (k5, kfb) repeat to marker
Row 9- (k6, kfb) repeat to marker
Row 11- (k7, kfb) repeat to marker
Row 13- (k8, kfb) repeat to marker
Row 14- (k9, kfb) repeat to marker
Row 15- (k10, kfb) repeat to marker (72 stitches total)

Hat Body
Color A
Row 16- k11, kfb, k to marker (73 stitches total)
Row 17- k to marker
*The next rows are the point shaping. They are worked back and forth across the front 1/3 of the hat. All knit rows head forwards, and all purl rows go backwards. The point is numbered separately from the rest of the hat.
Point Row 1- k23, wrap next stitch (ws),
Point Row 2- p21, ws
Point Row 3- k19, ws
Point Row 4- p17, ws
Point Row 5- k15, ws
Point Row 6- p13, ws
Point Row 7- k11, ws
Point Row 8- p9, ws
Point Row 9- k7, ws
Point Row 10- p5, ws
Point Row 11- k3, ws
Point Row 12- p1, ws
*From this point on you will be knitting forward.

*Rows 18 through 28 are the rest of the body shaping.
Row 18- kfb, k10, k2tog, k to marker
Rows 19-28- ssk, k10, m1, k, m1, 10, k2tog, k to marker



Hat Band
Switch to color B
Row 29- p2tog, p9, pfb 2 times, p10, p2tog, p to marker
Row 30- ssk, k9, kfb 2 times, k10, k2tog, k to marker
Row 31- p2tog, p2, Switch to color C k7, kfb 2 times, k8, Switch back to Color B p2, p2tog, p to marker
Row 32- ssk, k1, Switch to Color C ,k8, kfb 2 times, k9, Switch back to Color B, k1, k2tog, k to marker
Row 33- p2tog, Switch to color C k9, kfb 2 times, k10, Switch back to Color B, p2tog, p to marker
Row 34- ssk, k9, kfb 2 times, k10, k2 tog, k to marker
Row 35- p2tog, p9, pfb 2 times, p10, p2tog, p to marker
Row 36- ssk, k9, kfb 2 times, k10, k2tog, k to marker
Row 37- BO 25 stitches, p20, BO 8 stitches, p20

Earflaps
Switch to Color D
Earflap Row 1- p row (row headed towards back of hat)
Earflap Row 2- p2tog, p remaining stitches (row headed towards front of hat)

Repeat this garter stitch and shaping till there are 9 stitches left on each needle.

Braid
Cut 2 foot lengths of the gray and silver and feed them through the remaining loops, this is how I bound off.
Braid the lengths and knot.

Your done!