FO: Preemie baby hat
I did this for tonight’s Charlotte Knitting Guild meeting, where I’m giving a talk about basic hat design in conjunction with our charity project, Hats for Alex. We’re knitting hats for the Levine Children’s Hospital. To give you a sense of size, this hat is modeled on an apple. I deliberately kept it very simple, so that the individual knitter could customize it however he or she liked. Personally, I think this would look good with a little embroidered heart on the front.
The pattern is here on Ravelry, or here (pdf) on tvini.com just in case I screwed up the Ravelry link. Turtlegirl, I know you can’t see flickr at work, so pics are here and here.
It’s a baby hat, but the pattern tells how to do the very simple math to do spiraling decreases at the top of any hat, like this one or this one.
Hopefully the talk will go okay tonight. I have handouts. Everybody loves handouts.
Drayke received a hat knit/crocheted by a volunteer for Centennial. They come thru every couple of months & give the babies in the NICU these adorable little hats. I really need to learn how to knit or crochet because I would love to do something like that for others. It makes us NICU moms feel so good that a stranger MADE something for a little one they dont even know (I started crying when I saw Drayke’s hat).
Drayke received a hat knit/crocheted by a volunteer for Centennial. They come thru every couple of months & give the babies in the NICU these adorable little hats. I really need to learn how to knit or crochet because I would love to do something like that for others. It makes us NICU moms feel so good that a stranger MADE something for a little one they dont even know (I started crying when I saw Drayke’s hat).
Thank you so much for sharing this! Do you mind if I tell this story at Guild tonight? I think it would be a nice incentive. 🙂
Thank you so much for sharing this! Do you mind if I tell this story at Guild tonight? I think it would be a nice incentive. 🙂
Go right ahead!
Go right ahead!