There are only so many hours in the day, and too many needlepoint Christmas stockings still left to do. That's my story about why I haven't been knitting for awhile, and I'm sticking to it. The last thing I knit was a pink "Pussy Hat" to support the Women's March and denounce Trump. I knocked that off in one day in a state of righteous outrage.
But when the word came out that one of our grandsons needed a new hand knit beanie, what's a knitting grandmother to do?
I blew the cobwebs off the entrance to my knitting stash here at Struan Farm and ventured in (you may remember, it's a walk-in closet). I've never been a big baby knitter, I've always preferred making things for adults. I did make some blankets in Blue Sky organic cotton for grandchildren that did get well used. I learned to make beanies in volume when sister knitters and I got going making baby beanies for the Otara Budgeting Service each winter. One winter ASB colleagues and I made and delivered 346 beanies for families in need.
Fortunately the stash delivered. It would have been a bit ridiculous to go out and buy yarn when I have a closet of gorgeous yarns sitting in plastic boxes waiting to be used, but then as a knitter I know that that does happen and happens often. In this instance I had enough leftover skeins of beautiful soft Sublime "baby cashmere merino silk dk" in little boy compatible colours. The pattern is Sublime's "Get Knotted Hat" from "The third little Sublime hand knit book." Quick and easy, one to two nights, depending on what's happening on MasterChef.
It's now back to Freya's stocking, but this was good to test that I still remember K, P, and the secret handshake.
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