I'm doing the half hat to get used to wrangling the angry porcupine (double pointed needles). I'm using Cascade Sunseeker yarn for it (Deep blue with darkish/anglerfish green sparkles). The patterns are free, unless you want to donate to charity.
@Cobaltasaurus - So far we've done a pear cider and a pear-strawberry cider. The next batch is apple cider I think (all of this hard cider, not just for drinking like juice). We've learned a lot (the huz and I do it together) so far about how long it needs to sit and such. And I think we're going to try a standard honey mead this month or next, and the next batch will be hard apple cider - and then the batch after that will likely start with a roadtrip to Asheville during the apple harvest, to start with really, really fresh juice. Once we bought the stuff that we use to brew, it's a cheap hobby - neither of us drink very much, so what we make takes a few months to go through. But we're having a lot of fun with it, for sure!
I'm thinking about getting into the SCA again, which is something I try every so often - if I do that we'll probably brew more so we have things to share at events!
@Seamus - this is awesome. Culinary school is on my list of "things I'd love to do as idle rich, but don't want to do for a living because exhaustion. Do you work as a chef or baker, or just do it for fun?