03 January 2014

Charity Hat Knitting


Some how, I have acquired several skeins of acrylic yarn. How does that happen? The stuff must sneak into the house in the middle of the night. To use it up, I knit hats for charity. I use my own pattern, a recipe actually. The basic pattern is a tutorial up under the FREEBIE tab at the top of this page. Lately, I have started flipping through my old Mon Tricot stitch dictionary for appropriate hat stitches to use. The one on this hat is called Striped Stockinette: 1 row knit, 1 row purl, 2 row knit. Repeat.

Do you like my bookmark? It's a spring loaded clothes pin. 

More On The Needles can be found at Judy's blog PatchworkTimes.

5 comments:

  1. I have my mother's clothes pins and wish I had her clothes line, too. I need to find some other ways to use them.

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  2. The next time someone gives me acrylic yarn, I'll know whose elves to send it to. What a lovely idea, knitting for those in need.

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  3. I understand about the expanding stash of acrylic yarn. Sweet people give it to me too. I think I'm going to offer mine to some free-cycle people or some kids at school.

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  4. Your pattern for this hat sounds like even I could do it. Love that you are knitting for charity. I do lots of quilts for charity, but my knitting will be for me, when I learn how to make socks and hats.

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  5. Knitting for others in need is always a worthwhile endeavor. I'll have to take a look at your tutorial...first, gotta get back to my socks lol

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