This year as well as making hats for Operation Gratitude I made hats for Hats for Sailors. This is a group that makes hats for US Navy members serving on board ship. They provide hats for a different ship each year and this year they were asked to provide hats for the USS Carl Vinson, an aircraft carrier with at least 6000 personnel. As it was such a big undertaking and the ship is based out of San Diego I thought it would be a good cause to support. There is no limit on pattern or colour but you have to use superwash wool. As I did not have any I approached my friend Heather, owner of Ewe Ewe Yarns and purchased various colours and weights of her yarn. I liked that I was keeping it local. Although I didn’t think about keeping the patterns local.
I ended up making five hats. I do have enough yarn to make one more hat but I wanted to make sure that these hats were labeled and mailed in time.
I have numbered the hats in the order I made them.
1. Pattern Tamarugo Yarn Ewe Ewe Wooly Worsted
2. Pattern Freshwater Yarn Ewe Ewe Fluffy Fingering held double
3. Pattern Sailors Rib Cap Yarn Ewe Ewe Yarns Heather’s Heathers
4. Pattern Barley Yarn left over from hats 1 and 3.
5. Pattern Ankers Hat Yarn Ewe Ewe So Sporty.
I also finished another hat for Operation Gratitude. I needed an easy project and I had these partial balls of yarn that I had been given and Angel Hat is an easy pattern that I have knit before. The yarn is Extra by Blue Sky Fibers and is deliciously soft.
It will keep a serving or retired military member warm. I had not remembered that I had posted photos of my other Operation Gratitude hats as I finished them otherwise I would have posted this one sooner. I thought I would be posting photos of them altogether.
This year I have made 10 hats for charity which is equal to one per month. I am now going to take a break and concentrate on WIPs.
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