Preemie Pumpkin Hat

I unfortunately have lost the pumpkin hat patterns I'd used previously and I had trouble finding a pattern I liked for a pumpkin hat and so I devised this one.  I have enough orange yarn to make three and I'm going to modify the pattern a bit to make tomato or, if you rather, apple ones.

Cast on 48 stitches, join in the round.

Knit 7 rounds

Knit 16 rounds of K6, P2

Knit 1 round

Attach green yarn

Rnd 1:  K 2 in orange, K 3 in green.  (K 5 in orange, K 3 in green)   Repeat in ( )  End K 3 orange

Rnd 2:  K 1 in orange,  K 5 in green. (K 3 in orange, K 5 in green)  Repeat in ( ) End K 2 orange

Rnd 3:  K 7 in green, K 1 in orange.  Repeat. Cut orange

Green only:

Rnd 4:  K3tog, K5 (36 stitches)

Rnd 5: Knit

Rnd 6: K3tog, K3 (24 stitches)

Rnd7:  Knit

Rnd 8: K2 tog, K2 (18 stitches)

Rnd 9: K2 tog, K1 (12 stitches)

Rnd 10: K2 tog (6 stitches)

Rnd 11: Knit

Rnd 12: Knit

Rnd 13: Knit

Rnd 14: K2 tog

Rnd 15: Knit