Be Sweet

We didn't eat Hostess treats when I was a kid. In fact, I'd never had one until the day I submitted my dissertation, and came back to my office to find that Brooke (who was always alarmed to hear the list of things I'd never shoved down my gullet) left me a fancy root beer and some Ho Hos. And they were disgusting. Absolutely awful. It was like eating brown cardboard wrapped around plaster of paris. I ate them both anyway.

While my parents were here, mom bought me some yarn at Close Knit. It was ridiculously expensive, but beautiful. The company that produced the yarn is called Be Sweet, and their yarn is vibrant and soft and wonderful to work with, and I'd do it again if I had more discretionary income. Nonetheless, one ball of Slubby Mohair and one ball of Brushed Mohair, both in peach, plus 42 inches of satin ribbon, produced two very cute baby hats.





The pattern I used (more or less) is here, though I cast on more stitches for the second hat. I've got about 1/3 of the mohair left, and about 3 yards of the slubby.

The thing is, these hats look an awful lot like a Hostess Sno-Ball.