suh-weet!
I took another tumble down the internet rabbit hole, and look what I found:
A knitting pattern for a Balaclava Helmet – both practical AND handsome.
made with ear flaps to enable good hearing
during telephone operations
Of course. And here I was thinking I was short on gift ideas for my sweetie’s upcoming birthday. No longer! How could he not love it? Right, honey?
There are more where this beauty came from, the Victoria and Albert Museum website has the entire contents of Jaeger’s Hand-Knit Essentials for the Forces online, complete with your choice of downloadable patterns in Word or PDF.
Come to think of it my dad and brother have birthdays next month. Better get knitting…
January 23rd, 2007 at 2:01 pm
omg, that made me laugh so hard it almost hurt!!
January 23rd, 2007 at 3:44 pm
Oh that’s so…so…so sleek, so manly, so practical.
January 24th, 2007 at 6:11 am
Exactly what it looks like when I get my head *stuck* in a sweater! Love the grin!
January 24th, 2007 at 11:28 am
Sleek and manly – that’s it exactly.
January 25th, 2007 at 5:26 pm
the ear flaps, oh the ear flaps!
March 4th, 2007 at 6:23 pm
Brilliant!
The Ears!
And such lovely photos of such a silly thing… sigh
Truly- loved the link to the V&A. I’m not a knitter but the pattern for fishnets makes me reconsider…
Not that the Balaclava Helmet wouldn’t convert me first…
December 31st, 2010 at 12:29 pm
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