These hats and mittens were made for preschoolers at the Pine Ridge Reservation. Unemployment and poverty on the reservation is very high, it's tremendously cold in winter (9o F on New Year's Day), and many of these little children have long walks down remote trails to get to their school bus stops on the main roads.
The hats are my own design - the earflap hats are variations on my earlier pattern (with corrections posted!) and the others use the same basic shape until you get to the earflap part and instead have 4 rows of ribbing (FPDC/BPDC). The mitten pattern is from "Bev's Marvelous Mittens". (The quilt was made by my MIL).
This is the last of the Lion Brand Kool Wool in my stash. It's a bulky gauge yarn, so all the items used an "H" hook. It is very nice to work with, I am sorry Lion isn't making anything equivalent to it these days.
[BTW I realized while taking the pix that the light blue hat needed a navy blue pompom. I had enough scrap to replace it before packing the box .]
These are beautiful! and I just love the quilt. Your MIL is very talented. I was never brave enough to make a bursting star quilt.
ReplyDeletethose are quite pretty :) The kids will love them and keep them warm :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for this posting. I have been thinking about making things to send there. Years ago someone in our town would do a clothing drive each winter and drive a truck full of warm clothing there, and I was lucky to be able to participate in that. Now that I have my knitting time again, I'd love to make donations for them. Much appreciated, Martie.
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