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[daemonluna]

Helloooo, LJ/DW. Fandom friends, I miss you. And I find Tumblr, while entertaining to skim through, not my thing for interacting with. So I'm going to try to semi-regularly say something here.

I got kind of stupid-ambitious knitting for Christmas this year, ending up finishing and gifting two cowls (a chunky neutral-toned one for Barb, and a simple but dense linen-stitch multicoloured one for one of my oldest friends) a pair of mittens (practically sister-in-law), a pair of socks (my mom), and four hats.

So I set out to knit my very serious and sober father a hat for Christmas. This is the man who came back from Disneyland and thought it was overrated. I thought I’d found a good hat pattern, nicely understated but still interesting enough to make it worth knitting, and a nice, sturdy plain yarn in my stash to knit it with.

The hat was still in progress December 23rd when we got to my parents'. (The hat wasn’t started until late on the 22nd, and went under the tree still on the needles, but c’est la vie.) I’d also knit three bear hats for the lovely zulu and usomitai and are exactly the sort of adorable goofy people who would want mama bear hats to match their baby’s. And I was joking with my mom’s neighbour how I should knit one for my dad and how unlikely that would be.

Well. My dad saw my picture of the three bear hats, and said that he wanted one too. When he unwrapped his hat in progress, I told him I’d put ears on as I finished it. I kept asking him if he was sure. Apparently, he is. The hat has ears.

Comments

[devohoneybee]

that's kind of awesome. also? pics of hats with ears, plz. *g*

(using my only hat icon)

[daemonluna]

I am just impressed you have a hat icon at all! DW won't let me add pictures (or if so, I haven't figured out how,) so I'll email them to you.

[dine]

I wish DW would add hosting photos! it would make life a lot easier. but if they're online somewhere, you can post them here. I put mine on my LJ, then use this code to insert them in a DW post:

< img src="http://www.example.com/image.jpg" alt="title or description" / >
(close brackets)

obv. you include the actual URL and whatever description