Based on a Navajo fabric printing pattern, found on shutterstock.com, though I suppose it might be African, as well.

Used WinStitch to digitalise the original image.

I very seldom knit ethnographic (especially, my native Latvian) patterns because of their regularity and predictability: if there is a straight line of stitches on a cap, it has been straight miles before that and will continue the same way afterwards. For me, those patterns are dead.

What appeals to me in this pattern is its spontaneity: although the pattern follows a general trend, small deviations that make the whole thing live are omnipresent.

Strictly black’n’white with red flowers (leftovers of leftovers) on the inner brim for the recipient’s private use.