An Unreasonable Number of Hats

I think I’m done with the hat portion of my Christmas knitting. A sweater for each kid, maybe a scarf or two, but the hats are done. And a good thing, too, because I have a limited amount of space in my living room and they were starting to take over…

There were several more car hats… each a bit different but based on the same pattern.

Some cute little flowery/butterfly hats, sort of the girly version of the car hats. (No pattern for these, just a further extension of the car hat idea but with more Fair Isle in the “field” section at the bottom – one row of just green, next row of green and pink/purple alternating, and so on.)

A mother-and-daughter ski hat set. (Again, no pattern… just seeing what the yarn wanted to be. This is Paton’s SWS, it’s a wool/soy blend. Very soft. Feel your monitor – see what I mean?)

Two Fake Isle hats, one stopping early on the pattern because it seemed too big, the other on smaller needles (and standing up, so the photo looks a little skewed… such is life). Both with Noro Kureyon and a bit of the leftover black from the cursed sweater. (So, if you’re on the receiving end of one of these suckers, please hand-wash!)

And a smattering of warm-but-washable wintery hats to be disseminated about the country. No patterns, just casting on about six inches’ worth, knitting for somewhere between 6-10 inches, and decreasing every other row or so until it’s small enough to run thread through and pull tight.

So, yeah, that’s a lot of hats. But they’re a cute and satisfying sort of project, and made with love, ’tis the season, blah blah blah. I’m trying to focus my efforts instead of covering every head I know, and am reminding myself that there’s always next year, for those upon whom I can’t inflict a hat just now.