Can't Forget a Musselburgh for my Hubby!

I actually made this Musselburg hat first but only posting about it now. It is made with a worsted yarn that I found in my stash, so I don't know when I got it or how long I have had it. It started me back a obsession of knitting it over and over, and fortunately, finding lots of yarn in my stash.

This is a variegated dark navy, dark green, and olive, so it is a perfect color for guy who mainly wears flannel shirts. We keep our house fairly cool since it is a solar house so it is common for us to wear hats in the house. He even wears hats to bed (remember the poem "mama in her kerchief and I in my hat, just settled down for a long winter's nap"?). 

 

Here is the link for the Musselburgh

https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/musselburgh

A Musselburgh hat for my brother

I finally got to have lunch with my brother a week ago, so I gave him this Mussellburgh hat (https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/musselburgh). It is green, black, rust, and gold. He wears a hat every day because the warehouse works in is cold in the winter. He love the four-layer ear cover for that reason. Actually, he should retire but he likes working. How crazy is that? I have need retired since 2016.

Brian and I are only 11 months apart and have been close forever. When I was 19, I went to a psychic. She told me that he and I were tied throughout time and have been reincarnated together many times. The time before this was during the Bore Wars of 1899 and 1900. We were related there as well, but not necessary brother and sister. It might have been parent and child, husband and wife, or even grandparent and grandchild. Apparently, we were tortured and killed in that war, and we were sent to this life together to 'heal.' Now I don't know how true all this is, but I always loved the story. And I have to admit that Brian and I have had relatively easy lives. We grew up on a farm in South Dakota with good parents. We had two older brothers but it was us who were close. My mom said that we even had a language of our own when we were young. We never fought and always had each other's back. In some ways, we even married people who are similar to each other. Brian went into the service and I moved to Colorado as young adults. Mom was disappointed because she wanted Brian to move back to South Dakota, but instead, he moved to Colorado to be close to me. He even lived with for a year before finding his own place.

We are both now in our 70's and we are all that is left of our immediate family, with both our parents and our two old brothers gone. We still have our spouses, and we both had two sons who are about the same ages, and are good friends. Maybe that physic knew something after all.

More MIT Hats!

I had to bring my kitty Omi into this tread, but she doesn't seem to be that happy with it. But she was a good sport anyway. This was actually a baby hat for a friend.

I made one for a friend of mine who lives in Washington State. Since she is not here in Colorado, and my son is visiting for the weekend, I made him model it.