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Here are a couple of Christmas presents I'm working on. Below is one of two hats I'm making for two daughters of my girlfriend. This shows a closeup of the pattern I'm doing .... I'll post a picture of the hat when it's done. The bottom edge is eyelet which you can't see in this picture and the top has two ties with pom poms - it's adorable - I can't wait to see how it turns out.

The hat pattern is from this book by Patons, and I am making the one on the left. It is hard to see the cute ties and pom poms on top with the title over the hat, but I will photo the hat when complete. I love the one on the right as well, so I might make that one so they can each have different hats and scarves.

And below is an afghan for their mom. I was inspired by the hat my daughter Sebrina made for her daughter Gabriella based on a bonnet she saw in the movie Golden Compass. She used an Alpaca yarn and blended an ivory and taupe together.

It is very sweet ..... here it is on our little princess.

After seeing how beautifully the two yarns blended together, I decided to try her technique on the afghan, so I blended two Peruvian yarns that I had and .........

Here is the finished project. I used the rust coloured one to fringe two edges of the afghan and am pleased with how it looks. Not quite as soft looking as Gabriella's hat pattern, but equally as interesting. Hope my girlfriend enjoys it. She has brown leather furniture in her family room, so I thought that these two colours would blend quite nicely.