Orange you glad I finished something?

Daaaaaaaah. DAAAAAAAAAH. DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! (bum-bum bum-bum bum-bum bum-bum) I started these hats back in July at the request of a really nice guy I know via a message board (that is in no way as creepy as it sounds). He's got two little boys and they loved the hat that I made for a mutual friend of ours. So he politely requested two hats for the kids and then waited FIVE MONTHS while I knit and stopped, knit and stopped, ran out of yarn, couldn't find more yarn, moved, knit some more, etc. But now they're finished and cute as orange buttons. These hats are actually the reason I started this blog back in September of 2005 (sweet sassy molassy, has it really been a year?).* The pattern linked there is not well written, the yarn is Red Heart, and after nosing around the knitting blogosphere for a year now I'm a little embarrassed of it. But hey, the hats make people happy and that's what matters, right? They're supposed to look like Spacehoppers, a toy that doesn't exist in the US but is apparently iconic for Brits who grew up in the 70s and 80s. Looks like fun, eh? So now I can actually take something off my list of WIPs to the left there. It's been a while. Next up: Jamesey. Really. I'm going to finish this thing before I head home on the 19th. *(I know it has. I just wanted to use the phrase "sweet sassy molassy.")