Hats.
Hats for Hato Hone. (St John. The order of St John - first aiders and ambulance service - a lifeline (quite literally) for rural New Zealanders.)
I buy books and yarn at various charity shops. Hato Hone is beside the laundromat at Springlands in Blenheim. Buy something, have a chat... "Do you knit hats? We can always sell hats."
The thing about buying charity shop yarn bags is they always contain yarns I have no personal desire to wear - colours, fluff (texture), gauge (especially the bulky yarns). I sift out the part balls of double knit and 4-ply, sort the wool from the blends and acrylic, rebag the novelty yarns (ribbon yarn - that kind of thing - it goes straight back), set aside what I can use on my own projects and turn the rest into hats...
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| Ribbed Hats/Beanie - Glowing Embers |
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| Teabag Hats |
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| Variation on Ribbed Beanie - Sunroof |
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| Ski Hats |
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| Snowflake |
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| Lined Fancy Hat... |
HIP (Hats In Progress)
That's a ripping yarn for my Saturday morning.
ReplyDeleteLove the sunroof one.
Something for the winter bowling team. You'd be seen coming (and going).
DeleteWow. That’s a lot of hats.
ReplyDeleteAre you getting lots of rain. All of Victoria is under flood watch.
It does seem to have been a very wet winter and spring. We survive on collected rainwater so we are not complaining and it gets the garden off to a good start. I wonder what the super El Nino will bring.
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ReplyDeleteFabulous!!! As you know, I like a beanie and this variety is all the sort of thing I like to do - what have I got? Will it make a hat? And if not a hat, then some mitts or a cowl... I must ask our Red Cross outlet here whether they would like some - it would lend some purpose to my makes. Ta for the inspo! YAM xx
Sometimes missions that target specific groups (homeless folk, seafarers - strange and somehow not, to put them in the same bracket) welcome warm hats. Missions to seafarers sometimes take them when visiting ships in winter - often crews are from warm climate countries and suffer a bit arriving in UK ports at that time of year.
DeleteI like all your hats
ReplyDeleteI like knitting them too. Fast and like you've done, so many styles, colours, stitches. My favourite one though is a crochet hat done sidewayz
But..... everyone has a hat and not many wear them. Only skiers in the family ever really make some use out of them
I suspect the immigrant vineyard workers seek out hats (along with any earm clothes they can acquire cheaply) shortly after they arrive.. I often see groups of them going through the free clothing bin at the ReUse shop.
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