After a little shopping trip yesterday to get more yarn, I came up with another gift idea. A friend I needed a gift for has a dog so spends lots of time out walking in the snow and cold. I found a great chunky variegated yarn to make a hat and a solid worsted to match it for a pair of mittens. The hat made up super quick since it’s done on size 15 needles and I really like the style. The pattern was off the back of the yarn wrapper. So for a chance of pace (from slippers) I made the hat and have one mitten finished and the other about half way done. Although I generally hate wearing hats myself, this one I actually might wear since it may not actually give you a bad case of “hat hair” when you take it off. The hat still needs to have a floppy tassle added to the top.
But this pattern will also solve my problem of coming up with a gift for the husbands of two really good friends. We all get together each holiday season and exchange gifts and have a meal. Their hubbies I have the hardest time coming up with an inexpensive gift idea. But I saw some great chunky yarn in dark colors so they may get the same hat, minus the tassle (a little more manly looking without it). 🙂 I think it would be great fun to make their whole family matching hats and mittens.
Justquiltin with Denise Russart 