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Hello and thanks for visiting my blog. I have been knitting on and off for 50 years and I recently learned to crochet. I love looking for wool bargains and making them into something useful. I mainly knit for charity. I occasionally knit for myself and family members if I find a really good pattern or if they ask nicely!!

Friday 6 May 2016

Pretty in pink hats...




This time last week I was on the last round of a very big crochet project that I have been working on.  It has gone surprisingly quick because I have worked on it exclusively.  Then I needed a bit of a break from it.  So I knitted these two hats.  

The bigger one is toddler size and follows the Simple Lines Baby Hat pattern by Heather Tucker.  The smaller one is for a six months old baby and is a slight variation on the Basic Baby Hat pattern also by Heather Tucker.  I just added a row of eyelet holes above the ribbing because I felt like it!  I managed to use just 27g of yarn on the smaller hat and about 44g on the larger one.

I love the pink and the variegated yarns in these hats.  Little girls seem to love pink even when their mothers try to steer them towards other colours.

If I had stuck with my larger project, it would be finished by now. But the weather here is very warm at the moment, so it still doesn't appeal to me.  I feel one more hat in my system before the temperature cools down a little next week.  Watch this space...


8 comments:

  1. Those are lovely pink hats... I'm not much of a knitter but I do try...:)

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  2. I love those pretty hats you made! Hope you have a nice weekend.

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  3. Lovely hats Una it's always a pleasure to work with pink, I've made 4 boys hats this week I think a pink one is in order now. Have a great weekend. :) xx

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  4. Lovely hats.I have just started on a blanket for charity.Not sure which charity.Have you any suggestions?

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    1. I make lap blankets for SIBOL and bigger blankets for Operation Orphan. The links are at the top of my homepage. I love making blankets.

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  5. Such cute little hats! It is good to take a break and work on other projects when we are working on a big project. It will be exciting to see the crocheting project finished!

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  6. There are very pretty Una, good job.
    Meredith

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  7. Hi Una, just popping in to say hi and that those are the cutest hats! Jo x

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