The Short Programme

Well, here is my short programme. It's the choosing of the pattern, the getting of the wool, and the dinking around of the design.

I have always been a big fan of these Hello Yarn pirates. But seeing as how I am a cute pirate

and not a bloodthirsty, cutthroat pirate, I thought this hat would be way too much for me to knit in less than 4 months.
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Now, for Christmas my daughter gave me this:
in which I found this:


So. Now I need to plug in some piratey goodness into the hat and replace the snowflakes with these:And we have a cuff!knit in squeaky acrylic for utmost washability. Note all the little stitch markers where the pattern repeats will be.
Next, the long programme. Woo hoo! Arrrrrr!>