My mom needs a hat for the mornings when it’s cold out.  She and my step-dad are faithful about their morning walks, and occasionally it gets just a little chilly even living at the coast.  So, I decided that seemed like a good enough excuse for another hat!  I heart making hats this year.  They seem to have taken the place of sock-knitting for me, at least for the beginning of 2009.  So, anyway, the hat was supposed to look like this…but I only had two solid colored leftovers of sock yarn, and all the rest are variegated.  So, I used the pattern with variegated yarn and I ended up with this result.  I actually like a lot of things about it, but some I was a little disappointed with…for one it’s not the nice quiet little “fair isle” beret that I liked the pattern for in the first place.  The other is the dark color.  I’d do that differently too if I make this one again.  I really like how the variegated yarn made kind of little abstract flowers when I used it for a stranded pattern section.  There are more views on the flicker set.  If you click on the picture, it should take you there.

I hope she likes it.  And it fits.  And it keeps her little power-walking head warm.

ETA:  She loved it.  So did the cat.  Evidently I got a little catnip on it by mistake after filling the felted mice with catnip.  Oops!  I guess that’s a good kind of cross contamination.