Christmas Hat & Scarf
I wanted to get a better picture of this before I shipped it off to my mother-in-law, but I was busy making the pom-pom for the hat right before I needed to get everything wrapped up:
The pattern is one I've made before, but I decided the hat, for Lorna at least, really needed a pom-pom. I've had poor luck in the past with pom-pom making (and have vague memories of pom-pom-related trauma in girl scouts) so I armed myself with the best pom-pom making tool I could find: the Susan Bates Pom-Pom Maker, the procedure for which is nicely illustrated here.
In the end, the pom-pom turned out OK, but I really needed to give it a haircut to even it out.
Once I attached the pom-pom to the hat, though, it looked fine. Whew!
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