More Football with a Free Baby Bootie Pattern

Hey y'all!  I did not use a pattern for the hat.  Just HDC all the way to the silver, where I began using alternating DC, SC, and then on the next row, did a SC in each DC and a DC in each SC (make sure you have an even number of stitches!)  This was just to give it some texture.  The ruffled trim is just SC in 1st st, HDC, DC, HDC in 2nd st, SC in 3rd st, then sl st in 4th st.  Repeat around.  Very simple.  Of course, you need to have a number divisible by 4 to do this one.  So, basically, your last HDC row should be divisible by 4 to do the alternating textured stitch and the ruffle.  If you need this typed up clearer, please just ask.

The cute little booties were from a free pattern that I found.  Aren't they darling?  The originals were watermelon shoes but she has since come up with candy corn colors!!!  The link for the free pattern is: http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/baby-oh-baby-watermelon-shoes.

The bow is a pattern that I bought from Mamachee (Tara Murray) so I cannot share it but any bow will do!

Enjoy!  Let me know if I can clarify!  Have a great week!

Janice

It's Not Just About Football...It's About People, Too!

A few weeks ago, a potential customer messaged me about a hat that I had in my Etsy store for a little girl. She asked if I made them for women and what the price would be.  It was an Alabama Crimson Tide Cloche.  (I am an Auburn fan....but I have many, many Alabama friends and customers).

She told me she wanted it for her aunt who had lost her hair to chemo.  When I read that, I knew that there was no way that I could charge her for that hat.  Since I am involved in making hats for cancer patients, I just told her that I would make the hat and send it to her at no cost.  It was for a good cause and I could never charge for it.  Reminded me of the day that I was sitting in the chair at the salon getting my hair cut and saw an older lady getting her head shaved.  I knew why and just wondered how much they charged someone for something like that.  The lady left the shop and I suddenly saw the hairdresser run to the back of the shop, crying.  When I went to leave, I learned that my wonderful husband, who had been sitting there waiting and watching, had anonymously paid for the lady's haircut and the hairdresser was so moved that she had to run out crying.

With that being said, I am not writing this post or doing this for recognition.  Please do not tell me what a gracious thing I am doing.  I am not the one with cancer.  I have lost many loved ones to cancer.  I watched my father die a slow death, not to cancer but something just as bad.  I have realized that, as much as I love my Auburn Tigers and pull against the Alabama Crimson Tide, life is not a football game.  Life is no game at all, it is full of good and bad, joy and pain.  Life is fragile.  Every second of it.

Making this hat for a lady with cancer, who loves the football team that I pull against every Saturday, was the least that I could do to, hopefully, bring a smile to her face, a moment of joy, and help her to forget for a few seconds that she has this awful thing called cancer.

Chemo hat give-away! Please help!

I would like to give these hats to two beautiful ladies who have lost their hair due to chemo.  If you know of someone, please email me or comment below with your information.  I hope someone would like to wear the watermelon hat.    Please, no gimmicks or cons on this.  Please also make sure that they would like the hat and want to wear it so that I can make sure it goes to someone who would truly use it.  They are both adult women sizes and are made from 100% cotton yarn.

Thanks.
Janice

New Hat - Watermelon!! Flower (daisy, maybe) or not?

Thanks to free pattern from Daisy Cottage Designs!

My New FUN SUN Hat

I used my Vintage Cloche pattern to make this fun hat in cotton.  (The pattern is below in a previous post.) I changed the brim a little by making my first two rows "1 sc in first st, then 2 sc in 2nd st, repeat around TWICE).  I did not need to do any more increases after that! I added a few extra rows to the brim to make it more of a sun hat.  The yarn used in this hat is Peaches n Cream but plan to make my next one using Hobby Lobby's I Love That Cotton Yarn!

You may want to use a size larger hook if your cotton yarn seems a little heavier than your acrylic, which I think this particular yarn does.

The bow is from a pattern by Tara Murray (Mamachee) so I cannot share that pattern but there are plenty of bow patterns out there for free!

Enjoy!

My latest team hat!

I love doing team hats!  We are big college football fans and I get requests for all kinds of team hats.  This UVA hat is my latest.

Some others I have done are Alabama, Auburn, LSU and Va Tech.