Cousin Angie got her scarf in January, 2009 and asked me to put a little thing-y at the top of the hat which I had knit to match the scarf. Well knowing me you can guess - YES, it took a YEAR for me to knit a teeny icord thing-y and attach it to the top of the hat ha ha ha.
As a little extra gift for having waited so long for the hat I also knit her a headband with a removeable flower. She loved both items a lot, and moves the flower from the headband ... to the hat - back & forth :-)