Quick'n'easy musketeer hat

You need:

- a broad-brimmed fedora - the kind you usually get in any fashion store in autumn
- 1 - 1.2 mm wire, as long as the outer circumfence of the brim
- same lenght of woven trim or ribbon or bias tape in a matching colour
- matching thread

1) Put the edge of the brim into the sewing machine and let the wire run right alongside while you zig-zag around. Overlap the wire ends a little so you get a smooth connection.

2) Cover the whole edge with trim/ribbon, putting it around the wired edge in U-shape. Again, overlap the edges a little and finish the visible end neatly by hand.

3) Add a hatband in a matching colour.

4) Take two or three ostrich plumes and sew them to the hatband on the side of the hat that will afterwards be tucked up.

5) Put one side of the brim up and either pin it to the crown with a small, decorative pin, or sew it up with a cross-stitch in matching thread. Finito! :)

Grey mitts

I found the pattern, called Hedgerow Mitts, here and it's fast and easy to knit and really beautiful. I mean, I hardly have anything grey to go with these mitts, but they had this nice yarn and I really like natural sheep colours... I fear I need a matching pullover :D

Off-white mitts

Very nice to work, and rather quickly finished. I found the pattern on the internet and some nice-price wool in the store, and although I never wear fingerless mitts and don't see the point of wearing fingerless gloves when my fingertips naturally are the coldest part of my hands, due to other reasons I decided that I want a pair of mitts now. And they have one huge advantage: they're finished BEFORE the winter is over, not the following summer, like pullovers ;)