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A Meathead Hat in Cascade Magnum on size 15 needles. I made the adult small and added a crayon pocket also using the 15s. He loves it! (It's green, his all-important color, what's not to love?) He actually used the crayon pocket already: filled it up, pulled the crayons out from atop his head, colored, and put them back.

Here it is from farther off, and showing the full point, very elfin.

Edited to add: Thank you, thank you. :-) The crayon pocket is Heidi's idea, and her version appears in our upcoming book.

speaking of hats

Photo by Sarah Gilbert.

Thank you for all your hat offers! I'm going to email a few of you who offered and work something out. I know it's all very stupid, but the reason I don't have a hat is because last year's hat shrunk so that it's so small it hurts my head horribly and nearly pops off. And I made a calorimetry headband lately, and it flew off my head when I had the seizure in the park and I lost it and have to call the parks people, etc. Duh.

Anyway.

What I really wanted to write about is the hat in the picture above. It's the Dulles Hat pattern by my oft-written-about friend Sarah Gilbert. I've admired the many Dulles hats she's made for a year now, and I've been asking and asking her when she'd publish the pattern. And today she did!

The reality of publishing a pattern, if you haven't and you're wondering if it's a cash cow or something, is that you work for more than 40? 60? 100? hours on a pattern and sample, and you sell a few  (at least for me, I know some designers are lots more popular). You dream of the day that you verge on making a buck an hour, to justify your designing habit. So I urge you to go buy Sarah's hat pattern for a mere $3.50. It's an excellent gift knit, and it uses gorgeous Malabrigo but can easily use other yarn.

I can tell you, having sold 8 scarf patterns, that every time someone purchases your pattern it's a little thrill.

favorites, 11.11.07

Sebastian's favorites:
fixing things (papa says he gets very excited and serious about this)
screwdrivers
corn muffins
diggers!
singing, making music
running around and around the table
chocolate milk
raisins, as always
Stuart Little

Mama's favorites:
Jaywalker socks
my new boots with fur pompoms
NYT Sunday crossword puzzles
Tandem Cafe, and the bagels and chocolate stout bread
quiet days when we get them
fires in the fireplace

And another thing. It seems ironic that with all my knitting, and all the meathead hats out in the world, that I am a person without a hat. I was sooooo cold today on the way home from work. Is anyone interested in knitting me a meathead hat? I'll trade you some yarn!

The thing is, I want to knit myself a hat. But I want it to be this Inga Hat, which I've bought yarn and swatched for. But I'm so pressed for time that my hat plans are far beyond what I can knit now. My knitting is already in process beyond the dawn of the new year. I can't go that long. And today...in Nordstrom Rack?...I almost bought a knit hat. Almost. Bought. a Hat. It looked like one of them mason dixon washcloths, actually. It was cute. But come ON. Finally I could not spend the 13 bucks on it, knowing I could knit a fine hat, if only I had the time.

So I froze at the bus stop, and cursed myself.

sweet

The sweet baby cap from Gros Blog, via Hello Yarn.
Blue Moon Fiber Arts Socks That Rock mediumweight in Moss Agate.
Size 1 needles
2 days

And a ton of yarn left, or a few ounces anyway, for the new mom to make something to go along with it! And no, Sarah, even though you jumped the gun and started having contractions yesterday this is not for you and Baby Monroe. You're not ready yet. And I am not ready for your baby either.

circle time

One of my favorite little kid stories ever is about my friend's newphew, Christopher, who at the time was the most adorable little round 2+ year old with big brown eyes and rolls of remaining baby fat (I think he's in college now or something). He started preschool, and after the first few days my friend asked him how he liked it. He balled up his fat little fists and with great, deep anger he forced out,  "I.  Hate.  Circletime."

(Circletime came out as one).

I was just thinking about him as I was pondering my needle options for making the Sweet Baby Cap. And I realized. I. Hate. Magicloop. The pulling through of the cords in the little spaces between stitches is fussy, I think, and I dislike wondering when I should do it and having to make that judgment on every round.

So I called Mabel's in the last hour before closing, found that they had a 16" size 1 circular, and jumped in the car with Sebastian to go get it. I would have liked a size 2. But those who Hate Magicloop cannot, ultimately, be choosers.

The hat is really really really cute. After I started the decrease-only portion, I switched to two size 1 circulars and it's been working out just great. I recommend the pattern for anyone with a bit of sock yarn around and any babies handy.

the meathead report

It's been a while, and I may be slow but I'm a good finisher. I get my prizes sent out, finally, to their new owners, I jog with my last ounce of energy through the finish line, and I finally report on how much money you all raised for Cassie and her family back when you bought meathead hat knitting patterns.

I thought maybe 30 people would respond, and my dream was for a 3-digit number, $100, enough to really help Cassie when she needed to put an easy meal on the table or the kids needed shoes. Little did I dream that we could raise $744.75!

Thank you so much for all your generosity, and all your creativity. Our collective knitting energy has created a small but meaningful shift in the force. Apparently Cassie has taken up knitting and is on fire working on her sixth project already or some crazy thing like that.

You can click the mosaic above to see some of the details about those hats, but I think bighugelabs is having a hiccup of some kind. For example, how did that turkey get included? It's not supposed to be there, but it's so cute I decided to leave it in.

You're great. Don't forget it.

a hat in the rain

I was walking last night with Sebastian in the "buggy" and Ellie by our side, and the park was quiet. Still except for the gentle sloshing of the reservoir water, which was tinged purple and blue with streaks from the antique lights that hang over it. It was too cold for the clothes I'd worn, and I had no hat. It started raining, a soft Portland mist that somehow has intention, and you know even though it's a mere spray that it's going to get worse. Sebastian was cozy inside his chariot, but I was getting frozen and wetter by the second. I didn't want to give up our walk, but oh the cold.

I reached in to the stroller and found...a hat. A wool hat, very pretty. The one you see above on Sebastian in fact. It's sized for a 2-year old and barely fits him, but I was desperate. I tugged it onto my head as hard as I could and it just about made it down to the tops of my ears.

And it was waaaaarmmmmmmm. It felt delicious. I could keep walking and survive. In fact, I could stand still and watch the water shift around in the deepening dark while Ellie nosed the grass. As I stood there I had a shock of realization that it was Kyrie's knitting on my head. Her stitches, that she made with her hands, were keeping me warm and letting me go on. It was so fundamental. I was so grateful.

I had this feeling many times when I opened squares for the group afghan. That is Siri's knitting, right there! People I'd known only online had sent the work of their very hands to me. It was deeply moving.

I don't get too much room to capture all this in the book. But I do talk about it a bit, because I think it's really important to remember that knitting is special. It's not quick. It's not funky. It's not easy peasey. It's work, often hard work, loving work that we do for one another.

"Making something for another person is a profound act. In a world where we often get obsessed with 'quick gifts' and piling up FOs, it's too easy to forget what a fundamental and meaningful thing it is to create a knitted object and give that creation away."

That's our first book excerpt ever. Read it and weep? Hmmm, I think I need to make it more emotional. In a good way.

meathead hats, ending soon

I am overwhelmed with gratitude for the number of people contributing to help my friend Cassie. As of today (and without a proper accounting) we have raised more than $640 for her and her kids!  Holy XXX. I don't know what I thought, really, except to say that I imagined emailing out something like 30 patterns and giving Cassie $100.

Thank you so much for making it a lot better than my wimpy little vision.  I have it on good authority that Cassie is amazed and thankful for your support.  Also reportedly, she may learn to knit and make a meathead hat as her first project!

Contributions have slowed somewhat and I am heading into photo crunch time for our book in the next 8 days, so I'm going to end this sale/fundraiser on Thursday, March 8, at Noon Pacific time. Get your patterns now if you want any more. They will become available again in Spring 2008 in our book.

Thank you thank you thank you so much!

2006, the knitting

Adrian has a quite inspirational list of her 2006 knitting posted today. I liked the way she gathered it all - I'm a great lover of lists. So I thought I'd do the same. These are my finishes for 2006. There were many more starts, believe me.

January 2006

juniper bonnet
kepler

February 2006

gg's shawl

March 2006

zimmermann bonnet
another juniper bonnet

April 2006

seal rock ankle socks

May 2006

sebastian's birthday hoodie

June 2006

tiny wrap sweater

July 2006

emergency baby hat

August 2006

wrap sweater for davis

September 2006

charlie's angels wrap sweater for me

October 2006

candy cape

November 2006

a meathead hat
and two secret book projects

December 2006

socks 101
and another meathead for the book

Not counting all the false starts, the work on projects now placed in cryogenic stasis, and single socks, I'd say I knit about 4 baby bonnets, 2 adult hats, 2 baby wrap sweaters, 2 adult sweaters, 1 toddler sweater, 2 shawls, 2 pairs of socks, and a few miscellaneous secret things. Plus I did a whole lot of sewing that I'm not sure I can quantify this cleanly.

Stitch marker celebrated its 2000th comment, and I added riveting hopefully-at-least-somewhat-fun categories such as favorites, thrift & vintage, phone blog, and the homemaking hall of fame. You helped me through the dark Boob Nazi times, cheered me on while I ran, and celebrated with me as Binx grew and as we celebrated knitting together. Thank you for being my friends and co-knitters.

Oh, and whatever I may have lacked in wit and quality? Sorry 'bout that. But I made it up in volume! According to the kind and no doubt accurate people at typepad, this is my 500th post.

big meaty drum roll, please

Hi, this is Larissa's significant other and knitting-book-co-author Martin.  I'm posting tonight because Larissa is totally wiped out from her usual responsibilities, to which have been added the remarkable tonic effects of the rotavirus diet.  Nonetheless she badly wanted to get out our announcement of "picks" from the meathead knitalong.

So, drum roll please...

.. and now, the obligatory "remarks"!

First of all I have to say that we were  astounded at the big response to the knitalong, and gratified by the range and quality of results.  It convinced me that one big theme of our book -- that people working from the same patterns still produce wonderfully individual results -- wasn't just a line in a book proposal, it was actually, shockingly, true.   It's got to be a first in the world of publishing.

So, huzzah. Thank you. Whether you were singled out or not. 

I think you'll see from the flickr group that choosing 18 was really hard.  There were so many good entries (and not a few nice photos) we are thinking of changing the number to  32 if the publisher approves.  Also our choices are somewhat influenced not just by knitting, but by a need to balance colors and so on.  Accordingly we've chosen 18 hats, and then a second set of 14 hats or photos that may be called upon to serve as book meatheads should additional space arise, or should anything untoward befall the other 18. (Say, if they go out without their chaperones...)

Now without further ado, here are the 18:

..and here are the bonus 14:

You can see we really had a lot to work with. For knitters who are in these collages, look for a note on this blog in the next few days about about logistical arrangements for photos and permissions.  We'll probably be building a special website just to handle that stuff. 

For everybody: thank you so much.  We were wowed.

Cheers, Martin

snorg

Sarah has a post on her blog today about all the meathead hats she's been knitting. What she isn't telling you (yet) is that she's also been making a whole flock (a colony, a brace, a shrewdness?) of simple, sweet recycled hats made of the hemlines of felted sweaters. The one up top is my first attempt to copy her my homage.

When I was a little older than Binx, my father used to make up the greatest bedtime stories from scratch. One big series that we asked for again and again were all about a tiny elf named Snorg who lived inside a Christmas ornament. Somehow I had to name this hat after him.

It was supposed to be for me (ironically I still do not have a hat of my own for this winter) but it looks sooooo much better on Sebastian.  Wearing my big t-shirt and the Snorg hat, he looks like he just crawled out of his ornament ready to go on some sweet holiday adventure. And he did! We went to pick up our turkey during the most crowded crazy time at New Seasons. In that hat, we had 3 compliments before we even hit the turkey counter.

I already have 2 more made for the Recycled Holiday Bazaar & Bakesale at SCRAP.

the last meathead, now closed

This fabric shouted out to me, at the cutting table at Fabric Depot. That always happens. I get all my stuff together, figure out the exact maximum amount of fabric and trims I can buy, and then I walk up there and they have placed something this gorgeous right near the cutting table. They get me every time.

This has nothing to do with anything, but it's a pretty picture for the top of the post in which I close the meathead knitalong.

I was not ever going to close it, but it's gotten to be too much for me to add names and emails every day. If my family has any hope of getting roasted apple sauce, brussel sprouts with homemade balsamic mustard, cranberry pear chutney, granny smith & kale gratin, 1792 wedding cake (opens a pdf), and my annual chocolate cranberry cheesecake, I cannot sign anyone else up to test knit the hat. So as a little pre-Thanksgiving present to myself and my hungry people, I'm cutting off the signups.

If you are already in the knitalong and have received the pattern, please post your pictures to the flickr group by the end of November. Thanks!

And now, if it's Thanksgiving in your world, what are you making?

flowers & birds & squiggles & pompoms & & &

Photo & hat by chawne.

This morning has brought such fun news in my inbox. There are meatheads taking shape everywhere, and they are covered in lovely flowers, acorns and tiny birds, huge pompoms, felted squiggles, silver stars, and even supertiny hats. Others are writing in their blogs about the process, and I'm sure we'll see finished hats from them soon.

If you are knitting along, please join the flickr group so you can upload photos there when your hat is finished. And let me know if you blog about it, so we can follow along.

As for mine, I bought my yarn yesterday in a celery green color. "My LYS" (not my usual choice, but the one in town that has Lamb's Pride Bulky) has only a few colors, darn them. But I think the green will work nicely. It's the same green I used for the set of hats in this picture. I'm thinking of embellishing mine with a tiny swatch on little dpns, but I have other ideas too.

And I truly need a hat, so today may just be the day.

to make a long story relatively short and see if you want to knit a meathead hat (again?)

SIGN-UPS FOR THE MEATHEAD KNITALONG ARE NOW CLOSED. THANKS EVERYONE!

A long time ago I experienced my first knitalong.

Then I hosted one myself that changed my life. And brought me new friends, including my bestest Sarah.

Now I'm writing a book about knitting together. The book I've been mentioning here is in fact on this very subject, and it's in the works on a very short timeline for a very big fancy publisher who is going to make it pretty and lovely. Our editor is the ne plus ultra of knitting book editors, and she is making this book shine. And she and I both want there to be real knitalongs in the book. So that the glamour shots of several of the 20+ projects are real variations on the written patterns, as knit by...

well...

you.

I had a few takers when I vaguely mentioned book knitting a few posts ago. But now I'm really ready to ask you to do something. And it is this. A wearable meathead hat knitalong.

There will be other knitalongs on a few more book patterns, each with different parameters. But this pattern is dear to me, though simple, and so it is first. And this is how this knitalong is shaping up to go.

Basically, if you sign up for this knitalong you will receive the pattern and will act as one of many test knitters on the project.

But you'll be asked to embellish the hat in your own way, in the place of the cattle tags I use (as in the photo above). You might crochet a flower, attach a plastic bird, a giant pom pom, a tiny pair of wings or gathering of delicious vintage buttons.  Bring it on, knitters. After we all knit up these hats together and share snapshots of our results, then I'll ask several of you (maybe not all) to actually send the hats to me and Martin for selection for the book. We'll choose anywhere from 9 to 18 to be photographed for publication. Once it's all finished, your hats will come back to you for you to keep, imbued with the glamour of having traveled to Portland and New York to be lovingly, professionally photographed.

The pattern takes just 1 skein of Brown Sheep Lamb's Pride Bulky in any color (or a handspun yarn of compatible weight and yardage), and knits up in about an hour and a half. This knitalong is likely a quick one, not one of those that is about supporting each other through an intensely challenging pattern. But it should be lots of fun because of all the possibilities for these chubby yet elfin hats.

This knitalong means a lot to me, because of the story I linked to above. Because this hat pattern reminds me of the incredible generosity of virtual friends who are ready and happy to respond even when it seems like every time I turn around these days I'm asking you to knit or sew or do something for me. And you come through every time. I would love to see what you do with this simple pattern and the million different variations that are possible because we all are such different knitters, and creative souls. And I'd love to have you, my friends, in my book with me.

Because, literally, that's what it's all about.

So does anyone have a skein of Lamb's Pride Bulky itching to shine?

Fine print: 
It's likely that not every hat will make it into the book, so please knitalong for fun as well as glory. I will make every effort to thank every knitalonger in the book, even if your work is not pictured. Let me know if you're in, and I'll send you the pattern via email. You will need to finish the hat by the end of November (negotiable) and upload a picture of it to flickr.com. We'll ask those of you whose hats we are able to include to sign some kind of (very friendly, nonthreatening) agreement, and we will do all we can to provide you with postage $$ at the very least, if not some other kind of compensation. Since the book is about knitting along, the number of people participating may become huge and very expensive, but Martin & I will do all we can to express our deep appreciation.

emergency baby hat

Today I made this hat really quick for a friend's baby, who was born five weeks early. (What a nasty trick to pull on a knitter, little boy.) He's doing fine and his name is Davis. He lives about 2 houses down and he's going to be Binx's little buddy! He'll get more handmade items, but I just had to make something to bring over with the lasagna I made for them tonight.

Theirs is the greatest birth story I've heard in a while. The mom thought she might be experiencing some water leaks, so she drove herself to the hospital - alone, in the middle of the night, leaving her husband and 5-year-old son sleeping. On the way, she went into full-blown labor and by the time she arrived at the hospital they whisked her away for a c-section (which she was intending to have). Meanwhile, they are calling and calling her husband and he doesn't wake up. So Davis is born and his dad and big brother are snug in their beds at home. The police had to go knock on their door to wake them up and tell them they had a new baby. Can you just imagine that scene?

Amazing.

(click the photo for hat details)

a little shop, luv

I've had this on my mind for a while. I've been designing (many) and actually making (a few) little bonnets that are not for anyone in particular. Just because I love them. I'm working on some fabric ones, too, and a knitting pattern for a cool one.

Today I opened a wee etsy shop to put them out there for sale whenever I have one that has no home.

This is the first. A deep chocolate and apple green, Juniper style feather and fan bonnet. All cotton (Jo Sharp, fyi).

I'm calling my little bonnet shop Olive & Bea. It's named after my grandmother Olive who taught me to knit, and Beatrix, the little girl I was going to have before I found out Binx was a boy. I don't know if I'll ever sell a single bonnet, but I'm so enamored with them I just had to try.

So, speaking of luv...the other day at Abundant Yarn (where I spend so much time I really ought to be on the payroll), I was eating my favorite snack in their cafe - apples and peanut butter. I eat this at home, and I love that they have it on the menu there. A glistening white plate with sliced green apples and a tiny bowl of peanut butter. Yum. Much to my embarrassment, I looked down and suddently realized it was green and brown.

As Sarah said, boy when you get into something you really get into it.

twin obsessions

With my leftover Blue Moon Fiber Arts superwash worsted merino in the Spinel colorway, I made this bonnet from the Elizabeth Zimmerman pattern on page 108 of The Opinionated Knitter. I used size 6 needles to get a tight stitch, and it's a bit big but comfortable on his 10-month-old head.

I made a couple adjustments. Instead of a (chokeable) button, I picked up three stitches at each mitred corner and did a (less chokeable) i-cord. And instead of sewing up the back, I picked up all the ridges and then did a 3-needle bind-off with the bonnet held inside-out. If you follow the pattern from the book, these mods should make sense. This is what the back looks like, and this shows the color a bit better in the sun.

I think it's adorable! Iwant to make more. I don't know what I love most - the chubby blue i-cord bow, the sweet angles on the sides, or the way it frames his little face so sweetly even when he's miserable.

Thanks to my two new obsessions, I've started two flickr groups. Please join blue moon fiber arts and baby bonnets (handmade or not) and add photos, so I don't waste away alone in my lonely little flickr groups. Because a flickr loser - that's really bad.

now part of my ideology

I love this  little bonnet.  There isn't a single thing I don't love about it. It was one of those classic little patterns that are fun and fast, the roughish cotton denim yarn was a neat new experience and if I do say so myself a stunning contrast with the Victorian looking feather and fan, and there should be no question that little Juniper is a girly girly girl in this getup.

Also love-worthy:  the ribbon is reversible grossgrain from Paper Zone.  Let's just savor that for a moment: Reversible. Grossgrain.

The specs are here in this post, because everyone should knit one of these.  They are now part of my ideology.

I hope some of you decide to make these.  They're little gems.

for juniper

Leaving Portland, bound for this little head.  I hope it fits.  (If not, I'll have to make something else. Girl stuff is toooo fun).  And hey Wood & Dutch, are you two now drinking coffee, or was that a momentary flirtation?

More specs and a clear picture of the bonnet will come; I just thought this shot was cool, and like a typical artist I didn't care that it was unintelligible.

on the 8th day of december

My true friend gave to me...handle, a 3-hour or less baby hat.

This is the beta version, meaning it's only been tested once on one size.  But it is very basic and I think that any of you mighty knitters would do just fine with it in a holiday pinch.

Click here for the .pdf

a little hat

Welcome, visitors to the Little Hat Post of 2005. I get probably half my blog hits to this page, from knittingpatterncentral, so I want to say hi to those who haven't been here before. I invite you to make yourself at home, visit the rest of my blog if you have some time. Or just make a little hat.

M asked me to make a hat for his friend's new baby, and he wanted it to look kind of 1920s.  After a few false starts, I came up with this little number for Baby Lilly. 

Lilly's Hat
Yarn: scraps of Lamb's Pride worsted
Needles:  US size 10.5 circulars and dpns.  Switch to dpns whenever it becomes necessary.
Cast on 224, and join.
Round 1: K2tog
Round 2: k2tog
Total 56 stitches remain
Knit until hat measures about 3.25" including ruffle.
Decrease for the crown as follows:
Decrease round 1:  (k2tog, k5) repeat to end.
Round 2: Knit
Round 3: (k2tog, k4) repeat to end.
Round 4: Knit
Round 5: (k2 tog, k3) repeat to end.
Round 6: Knit
Round 7: (k2tog, k2) repeat to end.
Round 8: Knit
Round 9: (k2tog, k1) repeat to end.
Round 10: Knit
Round 11: K2 tog
Thread yarn through remaining stitches and pull to close.

Make 2 flowers using this free pattern from Sarah's Yarn Box.  Make 1 starting with a 6-stitch cast on and 1 starting with a 4-stitch cast on.  Sew them onto hat.  Weave in all ends.

smote me

Man have I been sick. It's been Bad. A complete physical and mental meltdown, with chills.  It happened - like the hand of God - just minutes after I left the post office where I mailed two giant boxes of baby formula, diapers, a camping baby bed, a sling, and 40 new pairs of bras and panties from Laura's lingerie shop, to the Baton Rouge River Center for Katrina survivors.*  It was like instant anti-kharma.

But before I was stricken, the whole family made it to the Oregon State Fair.  We had the deep fried twinkie.  We got pictures.

We won ribbons!

Well, I won the ribbons.  The angel hat took Third Award in the Knitted Item: Baby Bootees or Cap class.  My foul smelling (but only when wet) buttonhole bag took Second Award in Felted Bags. (Luckily they judged on dry land).

I think the baby bootee or cap class had some good competition, and my ribbon was quite meaningful. The first place bootees were for an elf princess; they looked like they were made from spun sugar and crystals.  But in the felted bag category, I think I got a mercy ribbon. I'm not maligning the standards of the state fair judges, no sir. I just think they may have felt a wee bit bad that there were only 3 bags in the whole competition and the other two were getting awards. The other two got First Awards, and mine got a Second.  Mine was, like, the other bag.

This leads me to hereby swear that next year I'm going on a campaign to get the tens of thousands of stitch-n-bitches in the Portland area to enter some darn knitting in the State Fair.  For God's sake, it's free!  And all the knitting of Oregon fit into two little cabinets. While the quilters took over the whole barn.  It was sad.

But the way the jams were displayed, on circular lit cases so each jar was lit from within, made up for the sad knitting turnout. Gorgeous.  It was an evocative, pretentious art installation to rival anything funded by Creative Capital. It's hard to believe I completely forgot my digital camera.

* See Been There, Done That for places that need direct aid such as baby stuff, rather than checks.  And see the Give a Little blog for a place for knitters to record their donations and donate/win yarn prizes.

undercover brother

Solid.

Pattern here.

exercise in wonder & faith

When you're knitting a baby hat for a baby that has to come out of your own self, size becomes a fascinating issue. You keep checking sources; is this right? It seems impossibly big, and yet so small that no person's brain could exist in there. The size of it fills you with wonder at what's going to happen, what is happening.  The enormity of it makes you wonder how, and why, it is done this way.  The weeniness of it makes you cry with a desire to protect that little head, even though you still haven't met it. 

On the other hand, my sweaters-in-progress give me another sort of brain tease.  They're tiny.  The evidence is all around me that women come back from the size of pregnancy, that someday it will seem like it never even happened. But it's hard to believe I was ever a "38/39" like this ribby cardi. 

Completely impossible to believe I'll ever be that size again. I apparently have some kind of faith, because I keep knitting.

(baby hat stats)