Hats for Alex

After I read Marji’s  September 26th post I immediately sorted through my odd lot bag for some yarn for baby hats.  I wrote about the first hat here.

It took me a little while to get back to this project but I finally did, knitting one hat on Thursday and another yesterday evening:

These hats are knit in remnants of Mission Falls 1824 Cotton and are ready to be shipped off, along with the first hat, on Monday.

It had been a while since I had knitted a hat and it has been perfect knitting therapy, short and sweet and easily knitted when one is tired or just a little scatterbrained.  I seem to be avoiding casting on for a more major project right now, just as there are several projects lined up in need of finishing.  I am sure the need to knit something more complicated and interesting will resume, but for the moment these hats are the perfect thing.  I have started another one, this one out of lilac superwash wool, but this one will be larger, a child’s size, to be donated to a local school.  I think all the local schools accept hat, scarf, and glove donations but I tend to give mine to the Pre-K to 2nd grade magnet school in Poughkeepsie, a school that serves a large inner city and welfare population, and never seems to have enough hats and scarves to go around.  Although it still seems unseasonably warm, winter will come and I hope to have something ready.