Baby Reo's Hat Collection

A friend of hubby's that he snowmobiles with is expecting their first child in February.  His wife, Barbara, asked me to make the baby fun hats to wear for fun baby pictures.  Reo was born on Super Bowl Sunday, February 2nd, at 9:30 am!

Here they are:

Plain Hats

Bear Hat

Chick Hat

Mickey Hat

Owl Hat

  

Newborn Long Tail Hat

Some are newborn size and others are 0-3 months.  She loved all of them!

My Arctic Cat Winter Hat

Here is my hat for snowmobiling:

I made it to make my snowmobile!  Since I have made 4 other hats, I figured it was time for me to have one too.  I just wanted a basic hat to wear after snowmobiling and having messy hair after wearing a helmet.  I kept it simple by making it a solid color without stripes this time.  Stripes annoy me!  LOL!

Supplies:
Pattern: Regular Guy Beanie by Chuck Wright
Yarn: Loops & Threads Impeccable Solids #01223 - Grass
Needles: US 7 on 40" Cables

Regular Guy Beanie for Hubby

Here is a hat I made for my hubby:

I casted on 112 stitches and did 2” of 2x2 ribbing. Then I did 15 rows of my MC, then 6 rows of CC and did 10 more rows of MC before beginning the decreases.

I made one (well it took 3 tries though) for hubby last year. But yesterday he was looking for it to go snowmobiling and it was missing. I couldn’t help him look for it because he is hiding my Christmas presents in the closet where it would be (and you know they aren’t wrapped yet)! I bet I’ll find it and then he’ll have 2 hats just in case.

Update: I found it in the closet today after 20 seconds of searching and moving 2 pairs of boots. He’s in trouble now!

Supplies:
Pattern: Regular Guy Beanie by Chuck Wright
Yarn: Lion Brand Vanna's Choice #204 - Charcoal Print and Cranberry
Needles: US 7 (4.5 mm) on 40" Cables

Third Time is a Charm Winter Hat

I finally got it right!!!  Here is hubby's snowmobile hat:

Do you believe that he requested another hat in gray this time???  I told him that I am making myself one first since I tried three times to make his hat!  LOL!

Supplies:
Pattern: Regular Guy Beanie by Chuck Wright
Yarn: Loops & Threads Impeccable #01040 - Black, #01044 - True Grey and #01532 - Claret
Needles: US 6 on 47" Cables

Too Big Winter Hat

OMG, do you believe this?  This hat is now too big.

Well at least now I can have hubby put it on and figure out how many less stitches to do for the third try.  But I need to make a few things first because I am sick of making hats that don't fit!  LOL!

Update: I found a home for this hat!  Dia, can you guess who????  He was very grateful!

Supplies:
Pattern: Regular Guy Beanie by Chuck Wright
Yarn: Loops & Threads Impeccable #01040 - Black, #01044 - True Grey and #01532 - Claret
Needles: US 6 on 47" Cables

My Winter First Hat

Here is a hat that I made for my hubby:

He announced in Webs a couple of weekends ago that he wanted me to make him a hat with three colors, gray, black and red to match his snowmobile.  I told him that I need to find a pattern first and I wanted to wait for a sale on yarn instead of buying it at Web's for $4.99 a skein.  These were on sale 2 for $5 at Michael's!

This was my first time making stripes!  After reading about making jogless stripes, these came out perfect!  I am so happy with it!  I now have enough yarn to make several more of these by mixing up the colors since I only used about 100 yards for one.

Unfortunately, this hat was too small to fit hubby.  I have figured out how to adjust the pattern and I will be trying again to make it for him.  This hat was bought by a co-worker to give to her nephew for Christmas so it will be put to good use.

Supplies:
Pattern: Regular Guy Beanie by Chuck Wright
Yarn: Loops & Threads Impeccable #01532 - Claret, #01040 - Black and #01044 - True Grey
Needles: US 6 on 32" Cables

Chemo Cap #4

Here is another Chemo Cap using striped yarn:

I started this on Friday afternoon of Memorial Day weekend.  I wanted a project that I could easily knit without referring to a pattern while hanging out at camp.  Then I finished it last Thursday when I was home with no power after the tornados.

Supplies:
Pattern: Knit One Chemo Cap
Yarn: Lily's Sugar N' Cream Stripes - #21143 Ocean Tides
Needles: US 9 with 40" Cables

Chemo Cap #3

Here's another stripped chemo cap:

I think that I only have one more color of this stripped yarn.  Boohoo!  I need to see if there are some more colors.  These make great caps!

Supplies:
Pattern: Knit One Chemo Cap
Yarn: Lily's Sugar N' Cream #21712 - Lime Stripes
Needles: US 9

Chemo Cap #2

Here's another chemo cap:

I love using this yarn!  I love how the stripes magically appear!  They look so cool!

I emailed Shriner's Children's Hospital to tell them what we are doing at work.  Although this facility does not administer chemotherapy, they do have a need for hats since they get several patients from Ecuador and other warmer countries which they are not used to the cold New England weather.  I think the caps that I have made will be useful for the cooler fall temperatures for them.

Supplies:
Pattern: Knit One Chemo Cap
Yarn: Lily's Sugar N' Cream Stripes #21010 - Natural Stripes
Needles: US 9

Chemo Cap #1

At work we started a knitting group called Knotty Knitters.  We knit together during our lunch hour a few times a week.  We have been talking about knitting for charity.  I came up with making Chemo Caps.  Here is my first one:

We are currently collecting chemo caps for Shriner's Children's Hospital in Springfield, MA from now until June 30th.  We will be picking a new place to donate them every quarter.  Next quarter will be donating them to the D'Amour Center for Cancer Care through Baystate Medical Center for breast cancer awareness month.  I cannot wait to see how successful this will be, I will keep you posted!!!

Supplies:
Pattern: Knit One Chemo Cap
Yarn: Lily's Sugar N' Cream #21317 - Violet Stripes
Needles: US 9