My brother is facing some HUGE changes in the next few weeks. Apparently turning 50 and having her babies all leave the nest has made my sister decide that she must take charge of our older brother. He recently lost his job and doesn't have many prospects right now, so being my pushy older sister, she informed him (I wasn't involved so I'm just speculating from the bits I got from my mother, but this is my sister so it's probably close to the truth, lol) that he was moving to Iowa and they would let him live in their basement.
Now, my big brother has been living on his own in Florida for well over 25 years. He's a big boy, but he does have some problems. He suffered a brain injury many, many, many years ago in a car accident and after that began to self-medicate. Also, the part of his brain that was injured is the bit that controls emotions, so he has some anger management issues (which is what caused him to lose the job). So the fact that my sister is pushing him into a brain injury support group could actually be a positive thing. And I don't see my brother in law standing for any self-medicating in his home, either, plus this gets my bro away from his cronies. So again, a good thing.
But holy smokes! Move the guy from Florida back to Iowa, just in time for winter! Poor man is going to freeze his you-know-whats off! Especially living in the basement!
So I decided I would knit him a cap to at least keep his head warm. Something manly, that he might actually wear, hahaha. Viola! The ribbed beanie! We won't tell him it's called a beanie. I waffled between this pattern and a Watch Cap, but I think I like the simplicity of this one more. It's knit in bulky weight yarn, so should be a fairly quick knit. And it will be washable, so that makes it easy on him to care for it.
