Nothing New Under the Sun

It is a cold, somewhat blustery day. I haven't wanted to move far from under the covers. So I have been knitting. I had an idea to create my own pattern.  I got it while watching all the YouTube train videos. I was captivated by some of the hats that I saw. I thought about it a lot while I was actually on the train, but I finished the hats that I was already working on. That is a different pattern that I worked on and can call my own. 

The hat that I am working on has a doubled ribbing, that I figured out myself how to accomplish and staggered knitting and purling for the body of the hat. I want it to be roomy, so I started by casting on thirty or so more stitches than I normally do. 

I was getting kind of antsy about the dimensions so I went to Ravelry to look at other similar hats. Doing that I found a pattern called Wurm by katushika that is almost identical to what I'm going for. I downloaded it, and read it. It is remarkably similar to what I'm doing. I will finish the hat, but will have to think of improvements and tweeks to make it a copywritable and saleable pattern. This is the problem I have been having. There really isn't anything new under the sun with a craft that has been around almost as long as it's been shining. How other people call a basic pattern theirs is kind of astonishing to me. This hat has some styling and techniques that can easily make it more amenable to calling the pattern hers. But still, without seeing her pattern first, I was doing a close copy of it. 

Cheese and the tree are still with us.