Now they have all gone bananas in pyjamas

Bananas in pyjamas knitted hats

In the run up to Christmas I spent more than a little time creating Bananas in Pyjamas outfits for two of my nearest and dearest for a seasonal fancy dress party. How easy that should have been. But having trawled every shop in town and seemingly every location on the web, I could not find a single piece of fabric with the right sized stripes. Candy stripe fabric every where... but only a mean narrow cm. wide. In true dedicated Grandma style I ended up piecing every single blue and white stripe for two pairs of pyjamas! A bit tiresome by the end but I got there just in time and with two inches of fabric to spare.

Knitting the banana hats was much more fun and would have been simplicity itself if only I had not had to knit them simultaneously to eke out a very limited amount of yarn between the two hats. They are based on a simple bobble hat with a slip stitches on alternate rows to create the idea of sides and the top stitches decreased  rapidly into an oblong shape, lightly stuffed. And don't they look cute!

What reminded me of all this was the sight of  "this season must have fashion trend" in the Sunday Times Style magazine. Bold monochrome stripes are all it apparently. Amongst many other examples, lo and behold, boy and girl bedecked in £75 bold stripey jacket and £41 bold stripey shorts.

Well I got two pairs of pyjamas out of a slice of blue fabric off the bottom of an old duvet cover from out of my patchwork stash and a metre of white cotton from the market. And two banana hats from some yarn someone else had left over many moons ago. Which is why I never throw things away.
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