Fagen Gloves:
My sweet mommy always has cold hands. As she says, "Cold hands, warm heart". So for her birthday I made her a pair of fingerless mittens. I told her, "You can wear gloves and still pick your nose" hahahaha. Well I get the first mitten finished and my guy says, "What, is your mom playing Fagen in Oliver Twist?" hahahaha He was obviously jealous so I made him a pair too. They both wear them all the time and I'm so happy to have found something useful for them both. We now call them "Fagen Gloves"
They knit up super quickly on straight needles and then I sew a seam up the side leaving a thumb hole.
Billed cap:
We were out in Colorado and my dad mentioned that he was looking for a warm hat with ear flaps and a bill. So I made him one. It took me a while to invent the design because interestingly enough I couldn't find one anywhere. I ended up combing a few different patterns and adding my own flair. I'm now making one for my guy without the ear flaps and I'm doing this one slightly differently. For the bill I used plastic cross stitch grid which worked perfectly because I could sew through it to tack the knitting in place before I sewed it.
I started with a basic hat pattern with 1 inch of garter stitch around the brim. I picked up and knit the ear flap and had planned to pick up and knit the bill also. However, I realized that I wanted the hat to be lined for extra warmth so I picked up all the way around and knit a duplicate of the hat plus the extra room I needed for the bill. I copied the shape of a bill from a machine made knit hat with a bill.
I am now working on one for my guy that will be a little different. It wont have the brim of garter. And when I cast on and knit a few rows I went back into the very same cast on stitches and started knitting in the opposite direction to create the inside lining with room for the bill.
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