Christmas Knitting

And hello there people! Well after over a week's self imposed radio silence to recover from Blogtoberfest I am back with a little Christmas crafting!

Normally I'm not big on crafting for Christmas gifts. I tend to just about manage to make Christmas cards and then call it quits. I often have grand plans for gifting out the handmade goodness but I find that time, light and my annual hibernation tend to draw a line through such grand ideas. This year though I have a couple of things I want to get done. One of which was this little cutey! If anyone had told me what instant gratification knitting for kids was I would have got started a long time ago! This hat is a bit of a joke gift for the only baby in the family who is having his first Christmas this year. I figured that everyone is bound to buy him Father Christmas hats and outfits but that no one would think of a Christmas pudding!

The pattern is an old one that I ripped out of a British magazine and now have no idea what it was! The "cream" top was supposed to be knitted as well but it didn't seem quite right to me so I substituted for a crochet crown of sauce that you could still see the pudding through. Then it was a hop skip and a jump to whip up the holly leaves and berries. (I''m thinking I might make those my Christmas cards this year as they really were ridiculously quick to make!)

So now I need to plan a visit to the baby branch of the family to drop this off and have some serious baby snuggle time! I just hope it fits and they like it, I have no idea how big baby/children's heads are! As for liking it, I know if someone gave me something like this I would adore it, now I am trying to figure out how to adapt it for an adult head!