Deadpool-inspired Knit Hat (Now with a pattern)

This Deadpool-inspired hat is a happy accident, which is probably Deadpool’s favorite thing. Aside from chimichanga.

It originally started as a hat for someone else. But as I started working on it, I decided I had to have it. It was going to be a sports team–inspired hat, but as I worked the ribbing, I altered the plan.

I totally winged the colorwork design. The decreases were a happy miracle of things working out just perfectly. I came across this super awesome pompom tutorial (yes, that is a thing I said) around the same time I started the hat. And having just finished reading Deadpool Killustrated around the time I finished this hat, I decided that this hat would get an extra special twist.

DEADPOOL POMPOM.

It’s not the best pompom in the world. Admittedly I kind of hated the idea of pompoms for the longest time, so I don’t have much practice—but I’m so stupid excited about it. And I have plans to make some other comic book character designs. This is not the first, though–you may remember my Carol Corps mitts.

There’s no pattern—like I said, I totally winged this as I was going. If you’d like a pattern, let me know, though I make no guarantees that it will happen. I’d have to do a lot of counting and stuff and probably pay someone to tech edit it because I didn’t even think to write down notes (though I did draft up the chart… or at least part of the chart, I need to go back and check the decreases).

Have you knit a happy accident—something that started life as one project but ended up as something even better?

An Update

A few years after I first winged this hat, I wrote down the pattern. You can get the pattern for free at Berroco.com. There are a few differences:

• In this version, I used a tubular cast on and did some fiddling to work a 2×1 rib at the bottom. In the pattern, I still used a tubular cast on, but it’s for 1×1 rib.
• The colorwork section is the same, but the pompom is less fun. It uses three colors of yarn though, so it’s still festive.