Yamaclaus for Chrismukkah

My Jewish uncle calls all of us Catholics "Super-Jews" since we have all of the Old Testament in addition to the New Testament. Y'know, the whole fulfillment of the scriptures thing.

On the television show "The OC," they celebrate the "super-holiday" of Chrismukkah. Jesus and Moses were having lunch one day, apparently, and decided to combine their powers to create a celebration that would have twice the resistance of any normal holiday to the Scrooges of the world.

Since we watched "The OC" (yes, yes, I know...) and we're super-Jews, we felt entitled to have our own bit of Chrismukkah fun. Inspired by the show, I made yamaclaus.

These little felt and fluff hats are super easy to make, although the fluff gets all over your kitchen table, floor, and black sweat pants. Oops.

First, you cut a circle of felt. I used a cereal bowl, decided it was too big, and used a slightly smaller mixing bowl. Hence the circle of felt in the picture below.

Then you cut a radial slit (from the center to the circumference).

You overlap those two sides until you get the desired "peak" of the hat. You can glue it together, or you can run a quick stitch through it on your machine. I think the latter is easier, but if you can't sew, you should probably take your chances with the hot glue.

It's really convenient if you happen to be in a wedding where the dresses are the appropriate red-ish color and the shoulder pads are round and the perfect size.

Then you have a nice, long bonding session with the hot glue gun. Yay.

I put the little fluff balls on top first and then put the fluff around the edges.

You have to kind of mess with the edging since it's straight and your hat is curved... it can't be perfect, given the laws of space and matter, but it'll be close enough.

Ta da!! Yamaclaus!!