In Memoriam
On Wednesday, I committed the ultimate sacrifice. I gave a hat I'd knit for myself to a friend in need.
I knit Knitty's Coronet last week to keep my head warm. While North Georgia is nowhere near the kind of cold you see in, oh, Wisconsin, it does get pretty nippy for a girl from South Louisiana. So I made the hat and wore it a few times. While I have no photos of me in the hat, here's one of Pillsbury modeling it.
An excellent model, that Pillsbury. No whining, no preening, no potty breaks. He just smiles and looks at me with those happy blue eyes, and only requests a few cookies now and then to keep his tummy full.
I gave him to my friend, Leigh, who was visiting from her grad program in Missouri. It is colder in Missouri than it is in Georgia. Leigh, like me, is a gentle Southern flower, who grew up in much more balmy climes. So I offered to make a hat for her, as she admired mine, then realized that if she was willing, I could give her the hat off my head, so to speak, as I was not as needy in the headwarming department as she. She accepted with glee and put the hat on for a group pic.
I felt good giving it to her. Now I can make the felted hat I really wanted to make (gasp! how self-serving I am!) and Leigh's got a new wool hat to keep her head warm..and it's UGA Dawgs red!