Christmas Hats

I made hats for all of Gus' family.  I used pretty simple patterns for these since these were the first projects I did for the Christmas season since they needed to be done early enough to ship.  I haven't yet done a hat in the round yet, so all of these I seamed.

For the men, I used this pattern from Lion Brand except I added a couple extra rows.  I also made this hat for a female friend as written. 

I used the pattern given in my knitting class a couple of years ago for the women but added a pom-pom.

For Gus' 9-year-old cousin, I used this Smiley Face Hat pattern, but since I was doing it for a child and also couldn't knit in the round, I used the instructions from another pattern with similar weighted yarn. My embroidery wasn't the best, but I didn't think it was bad for my first try and for working in a time crunch.  I loved the color and really want to knit another one for Nathan like this.