It is a thing I do where on major dates my dad and I find out way to my mums grave and stand there and chat and drink and he smokes (I quit last year) and share the occasion with her.

This New Year’s Day we were both hung over but we still made it. When we got there it was bitterly bitterly cold. We normally stay for about 40 mins, 15 and we were back in the car. We’re northerners, we’re not soft. That’s how cold we were.

Dad’s big beef was his ears, they were cold. Three days later I dropped into his place with the dad hat. Big enough to fit a 24" head and tall enough he could roll it to wear and look like a bin man from the 1930s (he picked the colour of it!) or pull down over his ears.

It was a simple make (us terms, a US sc is a UK dc)

Colour one:

1: FSC for 23" and join in the round
2: Dc around
¾: *2 sc, 2trc* around

Colour 2:
Dec around for as many rows as you want it to be tall

Decrease 12 stitches per round using dc2tog until finished.

(Dad doesn’t like his face going on the inter webs)