A little bird told me that the Dana Farber Institute was collecting Caps for Kids (see page 2 of their January newsletter for info on last year's drive here), so I pulled out all my stash yarn and got to it!

I realized I already had this orange hat that I made for myself last winter. It came out a little snug, so I never wore it. Well, it'd be perfect for a child! Then I remembered that there was an almost finished kid's hat (in leftover Rowan Magpie) in my knitting bag that I always use for demonstration purposes when I teach my beginner's hat class. I could easily finish that up and donate it.

Then I decided to try to make a hat a week in the remaining two weeks of my beginners' hat class. The first done was the Hogwarts striped hat that I showed you last week. I was tempted to make a second and keep them for the boys, but now that they'll be getting kool aid caps that they helped dye themselves, I can give this hat away, as intended. Then I quickly knit up another with a sort of marled look, knit with scraps of Elann's Peruvian wool and Rowan's soft baby held together. It is amazing how soft that soft baby makes the hat! And it's soooo warm.

I've got one more hat (a girly one!) already in the works and if the boys help me dye some more yarn (we bought some Crystal Lite orange which I'm curious to try), I can donate a kool aid cap too. I'm enjoying inventing new hats and the boys are having fun trying them all on for me. Plus, it's using up stash. That's enough of a good deed already, isn't it?!