Lijiang Year of the Horse Hat

From pattern intro:
I created this design in honor of the Year of the Horse; the stranded border combines both an image of a horse, and a repeat of the simplified Chinese character for “horse.”

The Lijiang Hat is worked in the round from the bottom up, with a corrugated rib edging, and uses a combination of stranded knitting and duplicate stitch for the horse motif. The horse may be omitted, and the hat worked with a simplified stranded border repeat of the Chinese character only.

The Lijiang Pony is a relatively new breed of horse, from the Lijiang District of China.

Difficulty: Intermediate: Skills include working in the round, reading a chart, stranded knitting with long floats (catching longer floats on WS is recommended), and duplicate stitching.

Finished Size
14 (15 ¾, 17 ½, 19 1/4, 20 ¾, 22 ½)"/35.5 (40, 44.5, 49, 52.5, 57) cm circumference, measured at brim of hat (stranded section is about ¾"/2 cm smaller), to fit babies, toddlers, small and large childr