My youngest son, Nathaniel, is particularly enamored of the Fox song. You know, “What did the fox say?” So when I found a crochet pattern for a fox hat, and I already had the perfect colors of yarn with no real plans to use them, I — obviously — had to make him a hat. He LOVES it. It’s really cute.
I was experimenting with the orange yarn, trying out new stitches, thinking I might end up with a scarf for myself. When I was getting low on yarn, though, I decided to just stop while it was short and make it a kid scarf. He wears them both everywhere. And asks “what does the fox say?” even more than before.
Then I decided to experiment with a variation on the hat pattern. My middle son, Timothy, is a forest boy. He goes to school two days a week in the forest. He loves all our local wildlife. I made up an owl hat for him.
A great horned owl, in case it isn’t clear. I’ll try to post more details and better photos soon.
Now, there’s one more hat to make, for the 9 year old. He has requested an eagle. That’s going to be interesting.