By Vicky Nardone
My husband Matt and I love the BBC show Dr. Who. If you've never seen it, the show is about this "alien" time traveler who travels the universe in a Tardis (a bright blue British police call box) helping to save the world. The show has been on since 1963 and has been gaining popularity since it came back in 2005.
Check it out - I highly recommend it if you haven't seen it. They have most of the episodes on Netflix.
Anyway, I was looking for a new knit or crochet project and I decided I had to make Matt a tardis hat for the winter. It's been really cold in Buffalo for the last week or so and he definitely needed something to keep his head warm. I had made him a knitted hat a couple years ago and he complained that after wearing it for a while the yarn started to get scratchy so as a solution I added a fleece lining to the hat. I saw this idea on pinterest and I loved it! Not only does it help keep his head warmer and prevent the hat from being scratchy but it also hides the inside of the hat so you don't have to worry about making the inside look neat when you're finishing the hat.
My family has belonged to a local theater group since before I was born. Every year at Christmas, some of the people in the group get together for a Christmas party. One of the hi-lights of the party is a White Elephant gift exchange. For anyone who doesn't know what that is, everyone anonymously brings a gift and then we draw numbers and go in order of our numbers for picking out gifts. Everyone has the option to either "steal" a gift that has already been opened from someone else or pick a new gift from under the tree. This year, my mom almost ended up with the picture to the left.
