Card Enclosed with Hats Going to Military Hospital

First Hat for Little Hats, Big Hearts

This is from the Little Hats, Big Hearts website

Volunteers from around the country are joining the American Heart Association, in connection with The Children's Heart Foundation, to celebrate American Heart Month by knitting and crocheting red hats for babies born in February at participating hospitals. Little Hats, Big Hearts, honors babies, moms, and heart healthy lives in a very special way. Supporters are knitting and crocheting red hats to be given out to thousands of babies during American Heart Month in order to empower moms to live heart healthy lives and to help their children do the same.

Together, we are working to raise awareness, provide resources and inspire moms to take their family’s heart health to heart while also raising awareness about Congenital Heart Defects.

I'll be working on these little hats from now until the beginning of January which will be a great way to help de-stress during the holidays.

Here is the first hat.

Pattern:

DPN: Size 4

Yarn: Caron Simply Soft 

Colorway: Autumn Red

Cast on 60 sts and divide among 3 needles.

K2, P2 for 10 rounds

Knit 1 round

K1, P1 for one round

P1, K1 for one round

Repeat

K1, P1 for one round

Knit 15 rounds

Begin decreasing as follows:

Rnd 1: K8, K2tog 

Rnd 2: K7, K2 tog

Rnd 3: K6, K2 tog

Rnd 4: K5, K2 tog

Rnd 5: K4, K2 tog

Rnd 6: K3, K2 tog

Rnd 7: K2, K2 tog

Rnd 8: K1, K2 tog

Rnd 9: K 2 tog (6 stitches remain)

Pull stitches together to close.  Weave in ends.

The Rest of the Hats

I'll be mailing a total of 40 hats next Monday.  I've added a photo of the tag I'll be attaching to each hat.

This Week's Hats

I want to mail these hats on November 20th so they'll be received around Thanksgiving, just as the holiday season begins.  This gives me ten more days to knit.

Four More Hats This Week

These are the hats I completed this week. The pattern is a an eyelet mock cable and is free on Ravelry here. I plan to make more of these in different colors.