He probably means Bowser.
I don't know about a hat with spikes, but if you clicky this LJ post I just made tonight:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/izzytart/351055.html
You can see the hat I just made for Jim from the mens' issue of Knitty. It was super fast, it's warm, soft, something slightly different, and knit up FAST - even for a beginner like me! I yarn I used is in the post too. Dunno if it's funky enough for you, but it would be a great quick, warm, slightly-different hat to make.
It's a friends-only post so if you're not logged in or want other URLs for the photos just email me. It's the "Tychus" hat from knitty, but I think it looks even better on Jim than the photos on the pattern page ...
Drew - Yep. I believe that is exactly it.
Izzy - LOVE the hat. Good job! I'm going to keep looking and see if I can find him something a little sillier, but if I don't -- or maybe as a second hat -- that's a great suggestion.
JIM - Alas! The squid is sized for infants. Stupid infants. Remember the chicken hat? Also for infants.
Or, along the same lines, like Jughead's crown hat from the Archie comics.
http://www.archiecomics.com/jugheads_house/jugheads_house.html
My vote would be for a Katamari Damacy hat, but the pattern isn't available online.
http://tinyurl.com/c96n4
Oh, yeah -
Your LYS should be able to help you resize the squid or chicken hats to adult gauge?
Oooh, the "coonskin cap" on knitty has instructions for adult size!
http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEwinter03/PATTfrontier.html
This one's fun, too:
http://knitty.com/ISSUEsummer05/PATTpinky.html
Also, I recently came across the Pixie hat pattern, sized for adults.
here is one site
http://www.chemocaps.com/page3.htm
http://www.headhuggers.org/default.htm
Best of luck to your friend. My gram was diagnosed with Breast Cancer a couple months ago and its hard for anyone to take.
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