It’s Furious Balancing

That should read “Baby Hats and Moose Burgers,” but my mind tends toward the alliterative.

The moose burgers appear in my wee little head courtesy of The Yarn Harlot’s blog post from yesterday.  She and her family are visiting Newfoundland, and I am profoundly jealous.  Curiosity compelled me to look up the average monthly temperatures for St. John’s, Newfoundland and in August - August, mind you - the average daily high temperature is 67 degrees Farenheit.

Sweet Jesus, book me a flight for Newfoundland.  Now.  I knew the Canadians were culturally and spiritually ahead of us when I discovered the existence of poutine.  I am convinced I was born a bit too south and bit too west of Heaven on Earth.  Well, I would still need a high-speed internet connection, but we’re talking lighthouses, sheep, rugged coastline, and french fries with cheese curds and gravy, not to mention the Canadian wonderfulness of curling and Tim Horton’s doughnuts.  Cold weather, carbohydrates, and wool.  Sign me up.

But I digress.

Today’s post is about a current knitting project and some past knitting projects that haven’t made an appearance here yet.  Baby Hats.

Even though I am Child-Free By Choice, I do love knitting up cute little baby hats.  For the most part, they’re fast, Instant Gratification projects.  I’ve made a few Umbilical Cord Hats from Stitch N’ Bitch: The Knitter’s Handbook:

the first in red

and the second in cream.

Then there was the hat resurrected from the yarn I tried to use for the Baby Nemesis Jacket:¹

And then another with cables.

However, my all-time favorite Bebeh Hat, until now, was the Pumpkin Beanie  I modified from Crazy Aunt Purl’s pattern:

Yes, yes, very cute, but none of them have anything over the Viking Baby Hat:

It’s a Work of Art in Progress and my first project for the 2008 Ravelympics, which is yet one more blog post in and of itself.  I’ll write that one up later.  I want to keep knitting.

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1. This is a whole ‘nother blog post.  I can cut a steek and wield DPN’s with impunity, but I’m incapable of knitting a garter stitch baby sweater. [↩]

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