A Penguin Hat

I started knitting again, which has made my life significantly better. I made a hat for Mike and a hat for myself a few months ago:

I decided to start on something a bit more creative. Mike's favourite animal is a penguin, so I wanted to make him a penguin hat. I found a pattern online for a kid's penguin hat, but I didn't think it was very cute. So I used this basic hat pattern and drew up my own penguin chart. I looked a some penguin clip art and combined it with the kid's hat pattern, and this is what I ended up with:



Here are pictures of the hat partway finished and then the final product. Maybe I'll start my own animal hat business, would you buy one with the animal of your choice for $10? (And to think, my dad says I need to go to grad school and become a linguistics professor.) I'll make my living as a travelling animal hat knitter!