I was happy to see that Whipup blogged about my free Snails and Slugs pattern last week as a “simple gift” for the holidays. This inspired me to make them just a bit more festive.
The tiny Santa hats are very simple to make.
With white fingering-weight sock yarn, cast on 9 sts onto 3 size 1 or 2 dpns, and join in a rnd.
Purl one rnd.
Switch to red sock yarn, and knit 2 rnds.
Next rnd: [k2tog, k1] 3 times (6 sts)
Knit 2 more rnds, then break yarn and draw through sts with a tapestry needle.
For pom pom, thread white yarn through top of hat several times, crisscrossing over the six stitches that you pulled together to close the end. (I made more of these stitches on the hat on the left for a bigger pom pom.)
Weave in loose ends, and now you have a Santa topper for your Snail or Slug!
Amazing how something so simple can be so utterly fabulous! These are delightful!
Love the Santa hats!
This is FAR too cute… !
I hope these guys will come and be part of the Christmas scene. I’ll even take the guinea pig off the roof….
They make them look so much more festive!
Oh thank you for this - they look fantastic in their hats!!
Hehe, what cute (and tiny!) festive holiday gear!
CUTE! I’m tempted to knit some of those little hats for my son’s pet turtles.
If you enlarge the pattern, you could make an actual human sized santa hat!
Oh they look so cute in hats!
Did you see that my slugs have infested our Christmas tree?
oh the cuteness! all my slugs and snails are pulling full on mopes now… because i don’t have time to knit them santa hats!