Summer Hats for the Teachers

I’m on a sun hat streak.  The kids wanted something special as an end of year gift for their teachers.  On Tuesday we settled on sun hats.  The kids would design the hats and I would make them.  Today is the last day of school and I just barely finished the hats in time.

The kids chose the colors and the stitch pattern, and the flower design, color, and button.

From left to right: R’s hat for his 3rd grade teacher: “She likes orange and yellow.”

Big A’s hat for his 2nd grade teacher: “Just like Grammy’s hat, but in blue!” with very specific colors choices and instructions.

and O’s hats for his two kindergarten teachers: “I want them to look like a watermelon and a backwards watermelon.  With blue and orange flowers!”

Wishing four wonderful teachers a summer of sunshine and outdoor relaxation!  They really deserve it.

K’s Chemo Sun Hat Pattern

 

I made these two sun hats as chemo caps for a relative who is fighting cancer for the second time.  It’s a small gesture, but I wanted something I could get into the mail quickly.

The primary pattern in this post is for the gold and white hat.  The blue and white hat is a modification of my Striped Sun Hat.  I included directions for the blue hat, as well as patterns for the flower pins, at the end.

Striped Sun Hat

This is very similar to the Gardening Hat I made, but with a nice stripe pattern.  I made it for my mom, who taught me all the gardening I know.  It is a very simple pattern, which makes a women’s size.  It works up very quickly and the pattern is easy to memorize.

Hydrangea Update

My hydrangea cuttings are rooting!  I checked a few days ago and there were little root buds, and a few little roots, at the bases of most of the cuttings (photo.)  Today, some are rooted well enough that they can no longer be gently removed from the soil.  None have rotted or wilted, so far.

Un-Knitting and Easy Zig-Zag Knitting Pattern

I am guilty, once again, of distracted knitting.

Uh oh, that hole is not supposed to be there!

Basic zig-zag knitting pattern at the end.  It’s lovely with self-striping yarn!

Sparrow

I had a request a couple months ago to crochet a European sparrow, in mid-flight, with some modifications (it will be wearing a costume.  Don’t ask.)

Gardening Hat

We have had a very rainy spring.  Now we have a serious black fly problem.  If you don’t have black flies in your neck of the woods, consider yourself lucky.  They are tiny little flies which swarm your head and get everywhere.  They love to bite right next to eyes, inside ears, under your hair.  And their bites bleed.

I needed a gardening hat.  I wanted something cotton.  I actually had a couple knit ones I ordered on Etsy (just because.)  I sprayed the hats with bug spray.  They work wonderfully.  Unfortunately, the boys and I can’t all wear two hats at the same time.  I also wanted something a little nicer to wear while on the local hiking trail with the kids.