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And The Winner Is…..

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And the winner is….

Wait, first, I want you to know that I took time out from the Winter Classic game to make this announcement.
The slippers are done! Yes, they are done!
The Mossi Cardi will be finished or near finished at Knit Nite tonight. Pictures coming, I promise. Now, who in the world schedules a Knit Nite on New Years Day?? A better question would be, what better way to start the new year?

Ok, this is how I chose who would get the Knitting Stuff Giveaway.
I called my Ultra Cute 2 year old granddaughter over and told her to point to one.
And she did!

And the winner is….

Hey, you know what? During the intermission between periods in the Winter Classic I should make some of those way cute sheep shaped sugar cookies for knit Nite tonight. Yeah, I think I will do that.
What is the Winter Classic? Well, it’s the 2nd annual outdoor hockey game, this year between non other than my ever favorite Detroit Red Wings and the Chicago Blackhawks. This year they’re at Wrigley Field in Chicago. I knew you’d be floored.
Too cool.
Oh, hold on, intermission’s nearly over.
I’ll be back…..

Ok, ok, enough stalling.
Makayla has pointed to…..

Carol!! I will email Carol to let her know so she can send me her mailing address!
This was so much fun I’m going to have to do it again.

Thanks so much to everyone, but this doesn’t mean you get to go away now. Keep stopping by, keep leaving comments, you never know what I’ll dream up next!

Oh, yeah! Happy New Year! (back to the game…..)

Next Pattern:

Have you read?

Knit a Hat with a Flock of Chickens

It’s well known (among knitters, anyway) that knitters seem to love chickens as a motif and a subject of our knitting projects. The Emotional Support Chicken and all the other chicken knitting patterns are just the beginning of our devotion to farmyard friends. 

For example, there’s Farmer Dennis’ Chicken Hat. This free pattern from Stacy Black is a simple worsted weight beanie sized for adults and decorate with a couple of little rounds of colorwork fences and a flock of chickens strutting around the body of the hat. 

You don’t need a lot of any of the colors for the chickens, their facial features or the fences, so this is a great project for using little leftover bits from other projects. The main color for the body of the hat is less than a skein using the yarn suggested, so you might just have everything you need in your house to start stitching up this hat right away. 

The colorwork is presented as a chart, with a 16 stitch section that repeats around the body of the hat. All the color changes are shown on the chart but I think it would be easier to knit the whole chicken in the chicken color and add the eye, beak and other features using duplicate stitch when the knitting is done. That way you don’t have to carry those yarns around the whole hat for just a few stitches. 

As the name suggests, the original hat was given to a farmer who shared their eggs, but anyone who raises chickens or just has a thing for the fowl is sure to love this cute hat. It wouldn’t be too difficult for someone new to stranded knitting or reading charts to make, either, so if that’s you, give it a try. 

The pattern is available for free on Ravelry. 

[Photo: Stacy Black]

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