Addams Hat

Late last week I remembered that I needed a fairly quick gift for a baby shower for a guy that I work with (and his wife, of course). I crocheted a baby bootie that I think was really a bootie for a two-year old (it was huge), tried another pattern that was teeny tiny and then gave up on the whole bootie idea.

Yesterday I was feeling kind of down (money, the lack of and my inability to save it when I do have it is quite sad) and stayed in all day, working on a pair of Mrs. Beetons (which I frogged after getting to the wrist of the first one because, once I put the two cuffs together, I was unhappy with the very first row of the inner cuff - heartbreaking) and watching the Addams Family Season One on dvd. The need for a baby shower gift was still lurking there in the back of my mind. Knocked out by the disappointment of ripping out all of the work on the Beetons, I finally decided just to make an umbilical cord hat. I knew it would be quick knit and it would be easy so I could still keep an eye on Gomez (ah how I had a crush on him as a young girl).

~~I completely forgot to scribble down the yarn but will add it later~~. The yarn is Universal Yarn Inc.'s Classic Worsted Tapestry. I bought two skeins of it on a whim (along with two skeins of something else that I have no plans for either) when I went to a yarn shop up north, Ewetopia, back in December - just because I went back to pet it twice. It's the most amazingly soft yarn and look at the bevy of stripes and shapes it created. Perfect for a little boy. The parents are keeping the name of their boy to be under wraps so I titled the photo Addams Hat since that mysterious and spooky family kept me entertained while I worked on it. A few minutes later I realized that was kind of ironic - the father's name is Adam.

Oh, and that bunny? I bought him last Easter at a thrift shop. He's one of my very favorite thrift finds and stays out all year (because even though he came from an Easter display they had set up, he's really not very Easter-y).

Much happiness - it's a three day work week for me! We have next Monday off for Presidents Day so I decided to take Thursday and Friday off so that I could have a five day weekend.