I host a Secret Knitting Santa gift exchange for students and knitting friends every year. The idea is to make something hand knit, or put together a gift for a knitter, like a kit or yarn or knitting gadgets we all want but won’t buy ourselves. Our exchange was at our holiday party on Friday! There is nothing like a bunch of hot women sitting around a table drinking beer, knitting, and exclaiming over their amazing Secret Santa gifts!

Me in Lily's Hat

I drew my friend Lily of The Owl and The Bee and knew right away what I was going to get for her. She knit my McCarren Park Cap up for herself a few months ago and before she could take pictures of it, on her VERY FIRST WEARING, she left the hat on the bus and it was gone forever. So I ordered the same yarn she used for hers, Knit Picks City Tweed DK in Lemon Curd, and knit her the hat.

McCarren Park Cap and Matching Beatnik!

She really needed the replacement so she could wear it with her matching Beatnik sweater! Amazing? You know it!

And what did Secret Knitting Santa get me?

MR DARCY CROSS STITCH PATTERN!

My Secret Knitting Santa turned out to be my good friend Tara who knows me so well she went off theme and put together a MR DARCY CROSS STITCH PATTERN KIT for me! I swear I was speechless for minutes! Isn’t it fantastic?! I can’t wait to get started!

Pattern: McCarren Park Cap by ME!

Yarn: Knit Picks City Tweed DK in Lemon Curd

Needles: Size 5 15″ circs, DPNs

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