My very talented friend Jen crochets up a storm....and crochets up some incredibly amazing little hats! Check out her amazing creations on Facebook at Jen's Creative Crochet. Not only does she crochet up her amazing creations for sale, but she also finds time (in addition to raising a little one!) to make hats to donate to a hospital for premature babies.
I used to crochet a lot, so I pulled out my old bag and found the leftover blue yarn I showed you earlier this week.
Pulling up the pattern Jen sent me for a "10 minute baby hat", I sent off to crocheting. My first one took longer than 10 minutes, but I'm hoping to get in a lot of practice this summer. I love the little collection of colorful hats Jen has collected, and hope to add some of my own to the pile.
This is my first, and it really made an impact on me: Why?
Well, here is a baseball for comparison:
Yep, that's the hat in my hand...really.....
....and Jen assures me it fits the premies she has sent some to already.
My son was not premature, but initially had serious complications, and we stayed in the hospital for a very long eight days. Those eight days remind me of families that spend not eight days, but eight weeks or much longer in a hospital with their babies. Eight days was difficult and long; I hope to make some hats and send to families that will have a nice warm hug from a stranger, a hug in the form of a little tiny hat that maybe will remind them that someone, somewhere is thinking of them.
I want this to be my summer project. Teeny tiny little hats.
If interested, comment and I will send you the teeny tiny "10 minute" hat pattern. It's very simple and quick.
I'd love the pattern, but you'd have to sit beside me and SHOW me how to make the hat. I'm crochet illiterate. I can do the stitches but have no clue how to read a pattern.
ReplyDeleteDeal rachel! This is a very easy pattern: only chain and dc...and then you do the dc over and over! If you know how to do the stitches, you're set...that's the hard part.
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