Donation a Day: Oct 24-30

It’s the last day of my month-long project!  This past week was brought to you by the colors blue and green.

A Tale of Two Hats

I had to take a little break from tiny hats this morning to make a winter hat for Miss C.  It turned into two winter hats.

Straw Bale Garden Part 6: Frost

The garden has slowed significantly over the past month, and we had to cover the plants with sheets a couple times, but we were still picking 1-2 quarts of almost ripe tomatoes a week and letting them ripen inside over night.

Donation a Day: Oct 17-24

Apparently, it has been a productive week!  I took some close-up photos, too.

Dragonfly Baby Set

I will share my donation a day progress again early next week, but… oh my goodness, this set!

Where I Crochet

That’s 1 mile into a 2.5 mile woods trail near our home.  I take the two little ones while the older three are in school.  Miss C sits in the stroller parked next to me while Little A throws pebbles into the water and I crochet a few tiny hats.  And then we finish our walk.

I often get asked how I find the time to crochet while taking care of five young children.  I have a two part answer.  First, I don’t clean as often as I should.  Second, I don’t have a smartphone.  That pretty much covers it.

Donation A Day: Oct 9-16

I forgot to take a picture everyday of what I had made, so here is the whole bunch together.

The pink and yellow set is very special.  It was made in honor of a friend’s daughter, Jessica, who was stillborn at 26 weeks.  Her mother chose the colors.  It is sized for a 26-28 week baby and will be donated in her memory.

45 Hats

That’s how many little hats I got out of a package of Lion Brand Bonbons!  Wow.  I might have to get another package.  I would love to find a white yarn which matches and make a bunch of white hats with a colored stripe.  I think those look best.

Lacey Shell Bonnet: 3 Very Small Sizes

This post has the directions for 17-19 weeks, 20-22 week, and 23-25 week sizes of the Lacey Shell Bonnet.  I will compile all the directions into one post once I have them all ready.

A Rainbow of Hats

I was going to try to do this donation a day project only using yarn from my stash (my enormous, fills my walk-in closet, stash) but I have mostly bulky yarn.  Bulky yarn doesn’t work well for tiny projects.  I bought a skein each of white, baby blue, baby pink, and cream in light weight.  I have been using that for the bonnets.  But the colors have been getting boring.

I have always loved tiny things, and every time I passed the packages of yarn bonbons in the store I wanted to buy them.  I showed a level of self control not in evidence with the rest of my stash and never bought them, until yesterday.