Wisconsin Warmth

I knit a tube.

Yarn: 1/2 skein Lion Brand Wool-Ease in Oxford grey
Needles: size 8 (5.00 mm) 16"-circular
Pattern: Melissa Mall's Tubular, in medium ("child")

Then I knit a hat.

Yarn: the other 1/2-skein of grey Wool-Ease
Needles: size 8 (5.00 mm) dpns and 16"-circular
Pattern: made it up to match the tube. Mason-Dixon Knitting provided the Pinhole cast-on instruction - and some day, I'm going to make that mouse. I cast on 8 sts and increased 8 sts every other row until I had 80 sts. Then as I switched to the circular from the dpns, I dropped every 4th stitch down to just after it was created and used a crochet hook to bring it up in pattern (purl-knit). I knit in the same pattern as the tube until I ran out of yarn, then frogged 7 rows, did four rows of k1xp1 ribbing and Jeny's bind off (which takes 2 rows' worth of yarn). I'm not sure why 6 rows wasn't enough, but trust me, it wasn't.

Worn together, they are really warm. Hopefully warm enough for a Wisconsin winter.