Crafty Pants

Crocheting for men (or boys) is much harder than for women because of their innate fear of crossing the invisible gender boundaries. While a woman would never give a second thought to wearing a cabled fisherman’s scarf, a man would cringe at the mere thought of a fringed scarf. But there is one thing all men have no problem wearing:

Beanies. Beanies, beanies, beanies. Or ’scullys’ or whatever your region calls them. So I’m ecstatic to find this easy, quick, no frills, and dare I say, ‘manly’ hat.

Update: I fixed the link. The pattern can be found in the internet archive, here.