Hat: Feeling Frizzy from The Yarn Girls Guide to Simple Knits
Mittens: Knit Simple magazine Fall 2007
Yarn: GGH Soft Kid
This hat and mitten set has been finished since mid-November, but it's hard to get a good picture at this time of year with so little light.
Both patterns were very quick and easy. I absolutely loved the yarn, which was used tripled for the hat and doubled for the mittens. So soft!
I've had an overwhelming desire to knit lots of scarves, hats, and gloves/mittens lately. I'm not sure what it is, because I can't really remember wearing any hats last winter. It does get chilly in San Francisco, but not that chilly. Scarves... I definitely wear those, but how many do I really need. Mittens.... hmm, maybe fingerless mitts.
I'd originally planned to use this yarn for a short-sleeved wrap sweater. I've been thinking a lot about some of the projects I have yarn for though, and and whether or not I have any use for these things here. A lot of my yarn was bought when I was still living in Chicago, so I'm trying to rethink things a little. Anything sleeveless or short-sleeved and anything very heavy or wintry will probably not get worn--either too cold or too hot.
Maybe this hat and mitts will get worn on our Christmas trip to the Midwest. It's bound to be cold there!
