In a slight detour from the Christmas knitting (undoubtedly the first of many, many detours), I've made a couple of little hats for my nieces. The youngest (almost 4) is particularly fascinated by my knitting and on her last visit asked if I would make her a hat (she'd tried on the stocking cap). I said I would love to and her answer still makes me giggle:

"Should I go upstairs and wait while you knit it?"

Well, I didn't finish during her visit, but they did knit up very quickly (one for each of the two girls).



The "heart" one is from this pattern and the lace one is an adaptation of this pattern. Now I'm just hoping they'll fit -- our family's skulls tend to the larger size and I know my older niece already has trouble fitting hats that are sized for kids. Our family motto should be "One size fits all....not!"