Introducing the Brennan Hat

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Written By Talena Winters

About a year ago, Netflix finally introduced a version of itself that didn't require super-high bandwidth internet in order to watch a show. For $8/month, we figured it was a pretty good use of our entertainment budget. So, for the first time in nearly thirteen years of marriage, we were watching "T.V.".

Not really—no commercials. (Yay!) And we got to watch shows we previously had to borrow or buy on DVD to enjoy. Plus, discovering some new ones.

One of those discoveries was Bones, a show about Dr. Temperance Brennan, a brilliant but socially awkward forensic anthropologist who works with Agent Seeley Boothe of the FBI to solve murders, who (fortunately) supplies the people skills she lacks.

One night, I was happily knitting along (since watching a show is just something to do while I'm knitting) when Dr. Brennan shows up on screen, watching Boothe play hockey, in a super-adorable cabled beanie. I fell in love with it immediately.

By the next afternoon, I had swatched and drafted a pattern for a very similar hat. And yesterday, it was published. You can find it here. (ETA 2023-10-16: This link now directs you to the pattern listing on the new site for My Secret Wish Knitting in a new window.)

I made it to sell (the hat itself is in my Etsy store, too)—but I love it so much, I may have a hard time letting it go!

Talena and Sunshine enjoying a sunny winter day.

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I help readers, writers, and brands elevate the ordinary and make magic with words. And I drink tea. A lot of tea.

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