More than a month later, the egg head
hats finally have there little horns, and have become deviled eggs.
Fortunately, the hats are big—because the girls are growing (as all
proper children should!) like proverbial weeds. Every day, bigger,
stronger more interesting. They now stay awake during the day when
you visit them, smiling and gurgling. Their different personalities
are becoming more and more evident.
They will (willing or unwillingly) wear
identical hats for a few more months, and then will start exerting
their will. Caroline will be the tricky one to start—she clearly
does not like hats-(though she may out grow this)-and is like me in
this.
I love to knit hats, but this winter,
the coldest, snowiest one in 20 years found me wearing a hat fewer
than a dozen times—and truth be told, it was closer to half a dozen
times. I like and have worn fancy hats (and wear my own lace hat
design more in the summer than I ever wear wool hats in the winter)
but I don't much like any hat (in any fiber!) that sits close to my
head—and I hate hats that cover my ears. Only when its cold enough
that I think my ears are going to freeze do I don a winter hat—and
that's not often.
Since the hats have been finished, I've
gotten 1 row done on the edge of the striped and lacy shawl.
Instead of working it, Or on the baby
sweaters... I have been knitting up some holiday eggs....
The smallest (the light blue chenille
yarn) is about the size of a common chickens egg, all the
others are closer to goose eggs size. The yarns are all washable
ones—all left over bits from past projects..The biggest issue is, I
am not much of a pastel person--(as that largest goose shows—those
clear bright colors are festive (and work) but are hardly pastel!)
and I don't have much in the way of suitable scraps.
I have left overs of Patons Grace (a DK
weight cotton) from my summer lace hats—some of the colors are not quite pastels but will work.