My brother liked his Finn’s Adventure Time Hat so much that he decided he is going to turn it into his costume for Halloween this year. His girlfriend also adored the hat, and told me about a gender-swap episode where Finn becomes Fionna and has a rounded hat with bunny ears (instead of Finn’s rectangular hat with bear ears). She found an image online and showed it to me. I told her I’d make it for her. That way, she could be Fionna for Halloween with my brother.

It took me about two days to knit. I started off like the pattern for Finn’s hat. After decreasing 4 sts after adding the chin straps in the round, I knit in stockinette for about 5 inches. Then, I placed markers every 25 stitches and decreased to make a regular, rounded hat instead of Finn’s rectangular hat. I decreased around the markers by knitting a ssk to the right of each stitch marker and k2tog to the left side of each marker. I continued decreasing like that until there were only around 8 sts left, then I k2tog around and slipped the yarn through the remaining stitches.

For the bunny ears, I picked up 20 stitches (from the decreases stitches of the crown) on each side. I picked up 2 more stitches in between the needles (to close the gaps) so there were 24 stitches for each ear. I knit the ear about 5 inches tall, then decreased for the top of the ear as in the original pattern.

She loves the hat. She and my mom will probably add some white wire to the ears to make sure they stand up, but I had some luck with them standing up on their own for a bit.