Knitting Children's Hats :)

 I love to knit hats for children.

Why, because:

you can use any mixture of colors,

you can experiment with stitches
and create many funky patterns,

and you can add any fun embellishments.

When I make a hat for a child,  

I allow for the amount of ribbing to fit 

comfortably on their head and that is my only rule.

 After I have that figured out I go wild and experiment. 

I never make two a-like.

 That would take the fun out of making them. 

Depending on the mood that I am in . . . 

I make them fairly plain or amazingly fancy. 

  

You could say that sometimes 

I'm a plain Jane and other times I'm a fancy Nancy, 

but all the time I'm having fun:)

Looking away from the fun . . . children need to be warm . . . 

so this is what I do.

Each year I go to a local preschool and

 play my guitar and sing with children.  

I usually dress-up as a scarecrow or as a cowgirl.  

Two years ago I made a hat for each child and passed them out.

  It was so rewarding.

  

Then the next year while I was making hats, 

I starting having a terrible problem with my lungs.  

I thought it was allergies or some flu bug, 

but no matter what I did it wouldn't go away.

In fact it kept getting worse. 

After about two months of this, 

I bought a new lamp to sit by my chair 

and I noticed that every-time I pulled out more yarn 

the air was filled with flicks of yarn.  

I was breathing these in.  

I put away my yarn and quit knitting and my lungs cleared up.

I had my yarn on the table next to me.  This year I am putting it in a basket on the floor . . .

 I'll let gravity help take those flicks of yarn to the floor. 

If you are reading this and you keep your yarn on the table next to you . . .

 get a strong light and see if you are breathing in yarn . . . 

and please switch your basket to the floor. :)

  

I hope you like these few hats.

I'll post some more at a later date.

Which of these did you like best?

Have a marvelous day . . . stay happy :)

Connie