I started a proper swatch. I wanted to be good and make a swatch on circular needles (because gauge varies depending on whether or not you're knitting or purling, so if you're going to be only knitting, as one does with circs, you need to swatch only knitting). I found my shortest pair of 4.5's, which is pleasantly short. I cast on the lowest multiple of twelve that I could fit on the needles without straining.
Then luck took a hand. After knitting a few inches of patterns, trying out some of the colour combinations I wanted for the sweater, I was joking around and slipped the swatch, still on the needles, it onto my head. It was an excellent fit. Seriously excellent.
My swatch had become a hat. I reduced in a way that I hoped would make a nice crown and called it done.
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