The hat of oh so many stitches

My husband loves cross country skiing and cross country ski hats. So when he found this yarn and asked me to knit him a hat, I was so excited that he'd planned a project. But my husband has a huge head. We're talking special ordered hats for high school ROTC. Almost impossible to find a bike helmet. And he wants fleece inside the hat for extra warmth. All of this adds up to a TWENTY-FIVE inch tube at nine stitches per inch. That's 225 stitches in a round. But doesn't it look so cool?