Acorn Beanie Hat | A finish {Knitting}

Happy New Year everyone!

My first post is not about new year resolutions - I have many and some specific to this blog... but that will come later. Instead I will show you the only handmade item I made for Christmas. In fact I finished it after Christmas. It was not a successful handmade Christmas at the MiH household...But it is an opportunity to show off Baby MiH! 

Pattern: Brownie hat by Woolly Wormhead (available here)

Yarn: Spud & Chloe Sweater, in Chipmunk (less than a skein) - 
the same yarn as used for my Pull Isa

Needles: 5 mm circular, and 5 mm DPNs 
Size: The toddler size

Modifications: I did not knit the ear flaps.

Result: It is a great hat, very different from the ones you can buy on the high street. 

It is a very interesting construction. You knit the brim first, and stitched both sides together thanks to the Kitchener Stitch, and then pick up the stitches of the body of the hat. Look at the shape of it!

I love the texture of the hat as well and so does Baby MiH! 

And there we are, one happy little boy - and I am still amazed I managed to take so many pictures of him. He was having none of it until we went outside!

Baby Foxes | A finish {Knitting}

This is possibly the cutest beanie hat ever. It is fun, warm for the little ones' little ears and very different. The construction is very interesting, many new techniques for me, which I always enjoy. And knitting in Malabrigo is always a joy of course!  

Although baby MiH appears in this post, this hat is not for him. I may make Wolfie for him, reckon is more wolfy than foxy. 

And here is the rightful recipient of the hat.. 

Look at these little ears, look at the way they are shaped - so clever.  

Pattern: Foxy & Wolfie by Katy Tricot (available on Ravelry)

Needles: 4.5 (DPNs) and 5 mm (circular) 

Yarn: Malabrigo Worsted in Sunset and Natural (found here)
Modifications: none, too busy trying to work out all the techniques. However it is not clear from the pattern how you stick the nose on the front, I sewed it in, it seems to work. 

Result: Love it! Once you understand the techniques (there are a lot of diagrams included with the pattern and there are a few useful youtube videos out there), 
it is a fairly quick knit, and you get an amazing hat out of it. It is a bit of an advanced pattern, but nothing too difficult. 
The Malabrigo is actually a great yarn for the babies, not too scratchy and it comes in great colours as well. 

When I posted about the progress of this hat, I mentioned the intersia in the round - which was knitting in the round but not really. You may be able to understand what I mean looking at the back of it. 

Apart from that, here are 'action shots' of the hat.. Maybe it is a boy thing, as demonstrated by Mylo and Baby MiH! Yep they are having none of it!

The buttons used on the hat are from an old shirt (kept the buttons and got rid of the shirt) and some remaining vintage buttons from my Cami dress.  

This is my entry for knit twelve hats in one year!