The Owl Hat

So it seems like owls are huge right now, owl fabric, owl hats... and for whatever reason I really like them. Owls and cuckoo clocks and russian nesting dolls. =) That's another blog post though. So after seeing a bajillion owl hats, I finally decided Kate needed one too.



I got her to model it by playing a game of peekaboo. =)





For anyone who's interested, I knit this on size 11 circular needles so it was super fast, then just whipstitched the top shut. The eyes are just crocheted circles, the green is the same bulky yarn so that's a two round circle, the white is the soft Caron yarn and that's a three round circle, and the black is some kind of thick embroidery floss and it's two rounds, too. I would have just used Caron black but I didn't have any. =) The beak is out of Caron bright and just embroidered on there. The hardest part was sewing on the eyes, next time I'll do that before I whipstitch it shut. It was hard to get my hands up in there.