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On the 11th day of our 12 Days of Christmas Giveaway, my true love gave to me, a Frosty Hat from Jimmy Beans Wool.
Today’s Project: Frosty Hat
Designed By: Kristen Ashbaugh-Helmreich of Marinade Designs and Jimmy Beans Wool
Materials:
- 2 balls Debbie Bliss Rialto DK
- 1 ball Debbie Bliss Angel
- US size 8
- 16” circular needle (optional)
- US size 8 DPNs
- 1 stitch marker
- 2 or 3 buttons for decoration (optional)
- Tapestry needle
Size:
Fits adult head circumference 20-22”
Gauge:
19 sts = 4” in garter stitch
Abbreviations:
k-knit
p-purl
pm-place marker
k1f&b-An increase. Knit one stitch in the front, then in the back of the same stitch.
K2tog-A decrease. Knit the next two stitches together as if they were one stitch.
SSK-A decrease. Slip two stitches from the left to the right needle and knit the slipped stitches together.
Instructions:
With a strand of the Angel and Rialto DK held together, CO 84 sts
Join for knitting in the round and knit in k2, p2 rib for 2”
Increase round:
*k5, k1f&b; repeat from * to end of round (98 sts on needles)
Garter Stitch pattern:
Rnd 1: purl
Rnd 2: knit
*repeat Rows 1 & 2 until hat measures 7” tall, ending with a purl round.
Decreases:
Rnd 1: *k2tog, k10, ssk, pm; repeat from * to end of round
Rnd 2: purl
Rnd 3: *k2tog, k to 2 sts before next marker, ssk; repeat from * to end of round
Rnd 4: purl
*repeat rounds 3 & 4 until there are just 2 sts left between each marker, switching to double point needles as needed.
Last round: *k2tog; repeat from * to end of rnd. (7 sts left)
Finishing:
Cut yarn leaving at least an 8” tail and thread darning needle with the tail of the yarn.
Run needle through each of the remaining stitches and remove the needles as you go.
Insert needle through the center hole and pull tight on the inside of the hat.
Tie off and weave in all ends.
Steam or wet block your hat to relax the yarn.
Hat will st retch a bit in length making it just a little slouchy.
Sew 2 or 3 buttons from the snowman face onto the ribbing as decoration on the hat.
This is optional.
*Another cute option would be to sew all of the snowman face buttons onto your hat in the face shape to make the hat look like a snowman head. This would be darling for a kids hat!
Enter to Win Today’s Prize: Debbie Bliss Snowman Yarn
Today’s prize is a Debbie Bliss Snowman Yarn Kit from Jimmy Beans Wool. The yarn included in the kit is yarn to make the Frosty Hat. Three balls of scrumptious Debbie Bliss yarns are stacked to create a wintery pal that won’t melt when it’s warm. With needles for arms and buttons for his eyes, nose and mouth, the Debbie Bliss Snowman is great for decoration, gift-giving, or a cold-weather treat for your own needles, and is sure to bring a smile to the faces of knitters and non-knitters alike.
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What is your favorite Christmas song or movie?
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Movie: It’s a Wonderful Life
Song: Red Shoes
Movie: White Christmas
Song: Little Drummer Boy
Movie: Miracle on 34th Street
Song: Mary Did You Know?
Thanks!
Movie: Miracle on 34th Street
Song: White Christmas
Charlie Brown Christmas
Fav song is Marshmallow World. I don’t know why, but it’s just perfect for a wintry christmas.
O Holy Night
Do you Hear What I Hear
White Christmas and It’s a Wonderful Life.
O Holy Night
movie: Miracle on 34th Street
song: Christmas in Dixie
Movie: I love them all, the cheesier the better.
Song: Frosty the Snowman or Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer
What Child Is This and A Christmas Carol
Rudolf the red nosed reindeer…..
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation! And The old How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
Favorite Christmas movie A Toy Story. Favorite song. I have two, Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree by Brenda Lee and Mary’s Boy Child by B.E. Taylor. 😀
Frosty the Snowman
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.
White Christmas
Movie Charlie Browns Christmas
Song Silent night
I love all the Hallmark Christmas movies that are shown every year.
Song: Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire
I love the song O Holy Night.
I so not have just one movie that is related to Christmas. I like so many of them.
“A Christmas Story”
White Christmas
For nostalgia: White Christmas. And for comic relief: Elf
I love Rudolph.
movie: The Grinch that stole Christmas is the move that gets watched the most in my household. My daughter loves this movie. However, my favorite is The Santa Clause Series.
Song: Rocking around the Christmas Tree and White Christmas
My favorite Christmas song: White Christmas by Bing Crosby
My favorite Christmas movie: Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
My favorite Christmas movie is The Christmas List. My favorite Christmas song is O Holy Night. Thank you for the giveaway!
It’s a wonderful life………. just love this one and the second would be White Christmas
White Christmas is my favorite song AND movie!
My favorite Christmas movie is the Goonies. It is not really Christmas related however where I grew up it was always on TV at this time of the year.
It’s not Christmas until I watch “It’s a Wonderful Life”.
“My favorite things”, sung by Julies Andrews; raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens . . . I know its not a christmas song, but, for some reason it reminds me of christmas.
Movie,” Its a wonderful Life”, Song,”Baby its cold outside”.
My favorite Christmas movie is Scrooged with Bill Murray!!
My favorite Christmas movie is “It’s a Wonderful Life”.
My favorite song is “Jingle Bells”.
My fave CHRISTmas song is ‘Silent Night’ … so peaceful & calming……..
have yourself a merry little christmas
Santa Claus is Coming to Town! and White Christmas for the movie.
Favourite movie has got to be A Christmas Story (love the leg lamp!!!) And my all time favourite carol would be Oh Holy Night… It’s one of those songs that I just lose myself in the music
Miracle on 34th Street movie.
Jingle Bells song.
It’s a Wonderful Life and the original Bishop’s Wife are really good. And we have to watch 24 hours of The Christmas Story. But my all time favorite is November Christmas. I love hearing the Messiah.
Have yourself a merry little Christmas
Silent Night is my favorite Christmas song! I live in a winter wonderland and it’s very fitting!
Mary Did You Know
Prancer!!
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. It is timeless. True meaning of Christmas. Everybody deserves to be loved.
My absolute favorite Christmas movie is an oldie, but goodie. It is White Christmas with Bing Crosby. I love all of the claymation Christmas movies, and there’s a new tv show with only one new episode a year about two elves who are in charge of helping prepare the roofs of houses where Santa will be delivering packages.
White Christmas
My favorite song is White Christmas.
My favorite song is Away In A Manger.
Favorite song would be My Grown Up Christmas Wish…..
Fav movie and song is White Christmas
Favorite movie is Charlie Brown Christmas. Also favorite music is from that movie.
A Merry Little Christmas
Song: Silent Night. 🙂
Elvis’s “Blue Christmas”.
Song: Oh Holy Night
Movie: White Christmas
It’s a wonderful life
Charlie Brown Christmas and O Holy Night
White Christmas for both movie and song.
White Christmas
Little Drummer Boy
O Holy Night
My favorite Christmas song is Silver Bells
Movie: It’s a Wonderful Life
Song: Mary, Did You Know
My favorite movie is any of the Rankin and Bass classics (Rudolph, Year without a Santa Claus, etc.). My favorite song is Little Drummer Boy.
My favorite christmas song is O Holy Night.
My favorite christmas movie is A Christmas Story.
White Christmas is my favorite Christmas movie
White Christmas
My favorite song is Silent Night.
IT’S A Wonderfully Life, and favorite song is Baby It’s Cold Outside!
Its a wonderful life!
Movie: White Christmas (I loved watching it with my grandma).
Song: Mary Did You Know?
I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas is my favorite Christmas song.
It has to be “it’s a wonderful life”
Grandma got run over by a raindeer
Song Breath of Heaven ( Mary’s Song), Amy Grant
Movie: It’s a Wonderful Life
Song: Mary, Did You Know
Even though I’m not religious, I love the Christmas hymns best. My favorite is The First Noel.
White Christmas !!!
Movie: Scrooge(the musical)
Song: O Come O Come Emanuel
Frosty the Snowman, of course!
Here comes Santa Claus
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas…
Let it SNOW, Let it SNOW, Let it SNOW!!
A Christmas Story followed closely by It”s A Wonderful Life!
Oh Holy Night
White Christmas hands down. My husband and I just saw it on the big screen at our local theater. It is still an amazing movie!!
My most favorite Christmas song is “Oh Holy Night.”
My favorite Christmas movie has to be “Home Alone.”
Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer has been my favorite Christmas movie since childhood!
Movie: It’s a Wonderful Life
Song: O Holy Night by Andy Williams
It’s a wonderful life, we watch it every year and never get tired of it.
It’s a wonderful life with Jimmy Stewart.
Movie: Charlie Brown Christmas
The best Christmas movie ever & my utmost favorte is White Christmas. As one who studied dance and performed for many years as a youth, I am so moved by Danny Kaye, Roemary Clooney, Bing Crosby, & Ver-Ellen in all the choreography and songs. Wish they still did it like that today. Song: Oh Holy Night.
Winter wonderland. I think that’s the name of the song.
I love It’s a wondeful life
Polar Express
Deck the halls
song: I’ll Be Home For Christmas
Silent Night
My all time favourite Christmas song is Blue Christmas sung by Elvis of course.
“White Christmas”…and “White Christmas”!
The Christmas vacation movie!
It’s a wonderful Life and O Holy Night.
My favorite Christmas movie is National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.
O Holy Night
jingle bells is my favorite song
National lampoons Christmas vacation
Its A Wonderful Life
Miracle on 34th street and I’m dreaming of a white Christmas
Wonderful life and o Holy Night 🙂
“Stille Nacht” (Silent Night) and “Ihr Kinderlein, kommet” (Oh, come, little children) sung in German during the Christmas Eve service as I was growing up.
White Christmas! Have loved it since I was a babysitting teenager and couldn’t wait to babysit for a family with cable so I could watch it.
I love Silent Night.
It’s not really a movie, but my favorite is The Polar Express. My favorite song is “What child is this”.
The original animated How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Angels we have heard on high … probably the Amy Grant version
My favorite Christmas movie is “Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol”, It brings back fond memories of when I was a kid and my dad and I would sit and watch it together. We did this every year until he passed.
I like the movie “Elf” and I like the Twelve Days of Christmas song.
Movie: Miracle on 34th Street
Song: O Holy Night
Oh tough question. I guess it would be a three way this between White Christmas, Holiday Inn and It’s a Wonderful Life. But if I must just pick one I will have to say Holiday Inn
Miracle on 34th street
A Christmas Story and White Christmas.
I love all the old hymns. My favorite is hard to pick but O Holy Night, What Child is This and Silent Night are among the top.
I love all the old hymns. My favorite is hard to pick but O Holy Night, What Child is This and Silent Night are among the top.
Movie is Rudolph the Red Nosed Riendeer and song is anything Transiberian Orchestra does
Actually…….we love Love Actually! Love the hat and the snowman too.
Away in a Manger and Little Drummer Boy
Movie:Miracle on 34th Street
Song: O Holy Night
My favorite song is You’re a mean one, Mr. Grinch.
Grandma got run over by a reindeer
“It’s a Wonderful Life” and a toss-up for Christmas song between Birthday of a King” and “Mary, Did You Know?”
White Christmas
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer and Silent Night 🙂 Love
O Little Town of Bethlehem
Favorite song: 0 Holy Night
Movie: White Christmas
My favorite Christmas song is “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas”
Movie: Scrooge – the Albert Finney version
Song: I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas
My favorite song is “Go Tell it on The Mountain”. But it can be sang year round. So that makes it better.
I like Elf.
Favorite Christmas movie is Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol.
That’s tough but I always have good memories as a kid watching Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol.
So cute! And the hat looks so soft and warm!
How the Grinch stole Christmas!
My favorite movie is Christmas Vacation!
Little drummer boy and It’s a wonderful life.
My favorite song is White Christmas sung by Bing Crosby.
My favorite Christmas song is “Santa Baby” 🙂
My favorite Christmas song is a Danish one that my parents sang for me…”The Bells of Christmas Chime once more…”
Favorite movie it’s a wonderful life
Song O Holy Night
We wish you a merry Christmas
Scrooge
My favorite Christmas movie would be White Christmas, I grew up watching White Christmas every Christmas, so did my kids. . My favorite song would be Silent Night, why, it is so soothing, and calming.
My favorite holiday movie is The Muppet Christmas Carol. My favorite holiday song is probably Silent Night. Thank you for the chance to win.
Our favorite Christmas movie is Christmas Vacation.
Blue Christmas by Elvis Presley
My favorite Christmas movie is White Christmas and we also watch Christmas Vacation every year too!!
My favorite Christmas song is Rocking Around The Christmas Tree by Brenda Lee
I love ALL the CHRISTMAS movies. .the spirit of Christmas and it’s a time of giving of oneself to others. .My favorite Christmas song is O’ Holy Night sung by the Celtic Women.
No favorite movie. Song is Hark the Herald Angels Sing.
It’s a wonderful life/rudolph the red moved reindeer
My favorite Christmas movie is The Greatest Christmas Pageant Ever. It’s a true noy to watch.
Favorite Christmas movie is “It’s a wonderful life”
Favorite song at Christmas is “Oh holy night”
movie: White Christmas
Song: I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas
Little drummer boy and White Christmas
Wonderful Christm Time by Paul McCartney and White Christmas (movie).
Movie: National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation because it reminds me of my family!
Song: Santa Claus is Coming to Town because it is the first Christmas song my four-year old has learned and she sings it so sweetly!
It’s a Wonderful Life is the Ultimate Christmas movie. It’s a lot harder to pick a best Christmas song. They are either really good or really awful.
My all time favorite christmas movie is A Christmas Carol the 1938 version
O’ Holy Night and “A Christmas Story”
A Christmas Story gets me every time.
Favorite Christmas song is Carol of the Bells & favorite movie is It’s a Wonderful Life, which is a family tradition every Christmas.
My favourite movie is “A Christmas Carol” The one made in the 50’s with Alistair Simms!
My favorite Christmas carol is O’ Holy Night
“O’ Holy Night” is my favorite Christmas song.
White Christmas!
Silent Night
Jingle Bells is my favorite upbeat fun song.
My favorite Christmas song is What Child is This
My favorite Christmas song is probably Mary Did You Know
Es ist ein Ros entsprungen ( Lo, How a Rose E’re Blooming)
My favorite movie is the Santa Clause and my favorite song is the little drummer boy.
My favorite song is Deck the halls with boughs of Holly! It is very cheerful.
I like the christmas story
Movie is – How the Grinch Stole Christmas ( cartoon version)
Song is – All I Want For Christmas
“I heard the bells on Christmas Day” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. A song of hope and faith during a dark night of the soul.
My favorite Christmas song is silver and gold
Movie: Miracle on 34th Street
Song: Jingle Bells
My favorite movie is Elf.
Baby, It’s Cold Outside.
Winter wonderland …even though I try not to be where winter lasts more than a weekend!
Favorite movie is A Wonderful Life! Just love angels…
As for my favorite song, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. I had to sing it in my kindergarden christmas pageant and it always brings a smile to my face (we had to wear a circle of red carton stuck to our noses with scotch tape!) I’m in my fifties now and the memory of it is still strong LOL
I like It’s a Wonderful Life.
I can’t pick just one song, I love them all!! But my favorite movie is Jack Frost, the 1979 one.
My Favorite song is White Christmas. All of the older Christmas cartoons are my favorites. 🙂
I love all the older ones like Santa is coming to town that has Mickey Rooney. One of the newer ones I love is The Grinch with Jim Carrey.
My favorite is rudolph the red nosed reindeer.
My favorite song is O Holy Night.
Little Drummer Boy and Its a Wonderful LIfe
It’s A Wonderful Life is my favorite Christmas movie.
It’s a Wonderful Life
Favorite movie is Elf and favorite song is Ave Maria
The older movies are the best.Every year my aunt&I have girls night.We started Thanksgiving night watching”,Christmas in Connecticut ‘,,Its a wonderful life.”white christmas” “it happened on fifth av” ” Holiday Inn”& Miracle on 34th Street etc.We’ll do that until we watch them all.Adding new ones every year.We love it.As far as favorite song.We have a radio station that plays Christmas music 24 hours a day and it stays on that station every year. it’s hard to choose because I love them all.
Miracle on 34th Street! Wonder does not have to be the sole province of the very young.
There are many versios but my favorite song ia Allelujah.