It's getting cold

Here's the reason for the lack of posting here in the past few weeks. Sorry, not Silas, but the hat. He asked for a new hat a while ago, and dug through the yarn basket to pick out the colors. I found this pattern and adapted it to try to fit a toddler, and the yarn Silas picked out. I ended up with something that fit his head but was a little too short to cover his ears. So I added the ribbed cuff at the bottom to help it stay on, cover his ears, make it look less like a minaret. Well, I shouldn't say that so nonchalantly, as it took about three attempts to get the ribbing right. The first time I cast off to tightly and it didn't stretch big enough to go over his noggin. The second time was more loose, but still too tight. The third and final time, I ripped it all out, changed needle size and ended up with a thick fluffy hat from heaven. Silas was jumping around with excitement this morning for his new hat. Now Orrin wants one....