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Two weekends ago while out for a walk, I happened to notice a pumpkin hat with matching mittens in the window of one of the local yarn shops. Since the weather has been steadily getting colder, I had been thinking about buying Henry some mittens, but after ogling the shop window for a while I was instead inspired to try and use the Fiber Trends pumpkin hat pattern to knit some up. The first attempt came out really sloppy. The comibination of working out a pattern as I went along and the fact that I was doing it at eleven o'clock at night (really tired) conspired against me in that I had to rip out and reknit some parts a number of times which really took a toll on the yarn. The lesson there is no matter how inspired I'm feeling, I really need to just go to bed already, especially when working on dpn's. It wasn't an entirely unsuccessful venture though. I did figure out how I wanted to work everything, so this past Saturday and Sunday while Henry was napping or in bed for the night, I broke out the needles and yarn and went to town. The result:

I used the same yarn I did for the hat (Debbie Bliss Merino DK for the orange and Plymouth Encore DK for the dark green border) which meant my guage was the same as for the hat. I'm thinking of writing out the pattern I used and posting it here. You'd have to buy the pumpkin hat pattern (This is where I got mine) because I used it for the cuff border and don't want to steal someone else's work.

What's that? You'd like one more picture. I guess I could post another one. This is the "I don't need pants because I have a toasty hat and mittens" shot.