Hats!!

I made several hats a few years ago for a local yarn shop to donate to kids with cancer. I had just gotten the book by Anna Zilborg 45 Fine & Fanciful Hats to Knit and several colors of Patons acrylic and spent the Thanksgiving holiday making several hats. We were in New Orleans visiting friends and I had a terrible cold at the time and spent most of my time at home knitting. Here are some of the hats I made during that week.




These were a lot of fun to make and not very difficult at all. I learned how to knit fair isle patterns with these hats. It was an easy way to learn and do some charity knitting at the same time. I've always wondered what the kids thought of them. Were they fun or just to uncool to wear. I'd like to think they liked them because they were different than anything you would get in a store.

This has been a hard week for me. The smog has been so bad lately that I've had a headache all week and feeling dizzy and tired all the time. Thanks to having had pneumonia 3 times in the late 90's, my lungs just can't handle the bad air. I left work early twice this week to come home and crash. On the good side, I've had a lot of knitting time this week and I'm almost finished with the shawl. I have about a third more to go on the border and then on to blocking.

I'm getting myself psyched up to get back to Michael's fair isle sweater after the shawl. We were talking about steeking again this evening at the Friday night knit group at Knitch and it got me thinking about it again. I was going to take pics this evening and post them, but the camera batteries died and are now in the charger for the night. I'll take some tomorrow. Luckily, they lasted long enough for me to take some pictures for Steve this evening of his Lord Elsenor scarf (his manly version of the lady Eleanor scarf from Scarf Style). He wanted some to post on his blog. So go here Famous Steve Knits to see them.

More soon. :)~