What can I knit for my 6mo niece for Xmas that won't take too long?

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...and that's not too difficult?

A hat? cheer yourself up by making it of expensive wool.

Hat, definately.

If you use reasonably thick wool (DK or bigger) it can be very fast.

Can you knit in the round? What knitting skills do you already have, and I can point you at an appropriate free online pattern.

Ooh sorry, NQC, have been too busy to come back to this one.

Can I knit in the round? I think so.

Do I still have time to make a hat? I hope so.

Online pattern suggestions would be fab. There's a nice new shop near us that has very swanky wool, so I will feel like it's a present to equal the exquisite hand knitted cardies produced by the great-grandmotherIL.