52 hats created........

...........and delivered.  In August while we were at Stitches Midwest I delivered my sack of finished hats.  If you follow my blog you know I had a goal of making 52 hats in a year and I made it.  I made a hat for each week of the year.  I have to say that I would go weeks without making one than make 5 but I did the 52 in less than a year.  The hats were donated to a group called Halos of Hope an organization that provides hats for cancer patients.  In the picture is Alexandra Woloszyk who they call the Hat Queen of Stitches Midwest she is wearing one of the last hats I finished up. I would like to make a new goal for this year but have about decided I need to make other things (like the sweater I bought yarn for in April which is still in the sack.) So I think I will just make what I have time for and see how many I get done.

52 hats in a year

52 Hats in a year was my goal starting last August.  I have a couple months to go and I am doing well with getting them done.  I counted today and I have 45 finished hats.  Since I keep a bag with something to work on while I wait for things like the dentist and the oil to be changed and I always have something going by my chair in the living room, I have 2 more half finished.

Last fall when I went and stayed in Florida with my parents for several weeks, a really good family friend and their next door neighbor gave me a big box of coned yarn that she had from when she did a lot of machine knitting. Some of it is very fine lace weight so I have just been combining several strands as seems fitting to make a hat.  I finished several hats while I was staying in Florida and then I had to fly home so the yarn stayed at mom and dad's until we went down last month.  

 

These are the hats I have finished the last couple of weeks since we got home from our trip.  Thank you Miss Betty for the yarn for these.  I didn't even put a dent in the cones to make these and my mom sent yarn home with me as well so I will have to just keep making hats until August when the show is. Of course I did buy some yarn for myself a sweater while we were at Stitches so I might just have to stop when I reach 52 and make my sweater.

 

This is one of my favorites from this batch.  I almost forgot to tell you what the hats are all for.  At the Stitches Events that I am a vendor there is a group called Halos for Hope that collect handmade hats for cancer patients.  The hats will all go to this project and the group sends them all over the country to where they are needed.