Tell’em-a-tree
Friday January 14th 2011, 11:50 pm
Filed under: Family,Knitting a Gift

My needles are suddenly brimming with hats. Their crowning achievement.

Okay, so I ended this one by taking a small crochet hook, starting at the second-from-end stitch, and chain-stitching a length and then running the end in to make a loop. Makes a nice little colors-of-the-forest halo for the baby, don’t you think?

While it’s all carefully rounded out like that for the camera, anyway. In real life, I stepped back to admire the achievement and, as that loop danced the twist, was suddenly struck speechless by its extreme likeness of an unintended Teletubbie.

(It’s all good.)


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Hi, Alison. Just saw a knitlis postthat made me scoot over here (I’ve been out of the loop for far too long). Congrats on the newest addition to your family. We also welcomed a tiny grandson (in September) who was also early (34 weeks). Conor (Tiny Prince Two/Too is doing well and is much loved by his big brother (Tiny Prince Original).

To quote Erma Bombeck (I think) If I had known how much fun grandchildren could be, I would have had them first!

Comment by ann 01.15.11 @ 4:43 am

What a darling wee hat! Can you starch the little loop into submission?

Comment by Channon 01.15.11 @ 8:34 am

‘S’OK. Baby’s heads kind of look like teletubbies, too.

Comment by sherry in Idaho 01.15.11 @ 8:36 am

Beautiful colors in the hat! And with the loop, it could be hung on a Christmas tree.

Comment by Don Meyer 01.15.11 @ 11:13 am

It’s “good.” (understatement.)

Comment by LynnM 01.15.11 @ 12:55 pm

I love it. I believe the loop would need to be more donut sized to truly say Teletubby.

Comment by twinsetellen 01.15.11 @ 3:05 pm

Hat’s off to you…keep ’em coming!

Comment by Ruth 01.15.11 @ 11:11 pm



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