Hat’s the way I like it

It’s often the way with knitting that if anyone sees what you’re up to, they pipe up and ask you to make something for them too. This was the case when Woody, my housemate at the time, saw me feverishly trying to get Ruthie’s mittens ready before her birthday. I was foolish enough to agree. Woody liked the pattern of the mittens, but they’re not really the thing for the fashionable man about town, so I made him the hat instead. Although the pattern is for knitting the hat flat, I did it in the round and was much happier when I reached the end and there were no silly seams to sew up. No pic of Woody modelling the finished hat (yet), just me. I really enjoyed making this and I reckon I might get round to doing one for myself one day.

The only modifications I made to the pattern were starting with 12 rows of rib instead of 8 and I swapped the colours around a bit, so that I got more of colour A than colour C (I wanted it to be mostly grey).

The link to the pattern is in the my first mittens post.

Easter Sun-day

What more could you ask for on Easter Sunday than good friends, good food and beautiful sunshine? I can’t claim to have made the sun shine, but I did invite a group of my loveliest friends for a fabulous feast hosted by me and the delightful Sarah.

On the menu was roast chicken (with a scrumptious marinade made by Rob using garlic, herbs, olive oil and paprika), roast potatoes, roast parsnips, roast carrots, mashed sweet potatoes, broccoli, delicious homemade gravy (again by Rob) and the fluffiest Yorkshire puddings you’ve ever seen created by Martin. For pudding we were treated to Rob’s apple and blackberry crumble with custard and a deeply chocolatey fair trade tart courtesy of Co-op via Martin. All of this was washed down with copious amounts of wine provided by Woody, Fiona and Kieran. When we were so full we could barely remember our names we rolled down the hill to the beach. Bliss!