{"id":1683,"date":"2008-07-01T13:12:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-01T17:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=1683"},"modified":"2008-07-01T13:12:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-01T17:12:00","slug":"fo-preemie-baby-hat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=1683","title":{"rendered":"FO: Preemie baby hat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/93468786@N00\/2628410980\/\" target=\"blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3105\/2628410980_b2d2128308_m.jpg\" height=\"200\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" border=\"2\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/93468786@N00\/2628411228\/\" target=\"blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3278\/2628411228_bab860f7ce_m.jpg\" height=\"200\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"right\" border=\"2\"><\/a><br \/>\nI did this for tonight&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/cltkg.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"blank\">Charlotte Knitting Guild<\/a> meeting, where I&#8217;m giving a talk about basic hat design in conjunction with our charity project, <a href=\"http:\/\/hatsforalex.org\/\" target=\"blank\">Hats for Alex<\/a>.  We&#8217;re knitting hats for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.levinechildrenshospital.org\/\" target=\"blank\">Levine Children&#8217;s Hospital<\/a>.  To give you a sense of size, this hat is modeled on an apple.  I deliberately kept it very simple, so that the individual knitter could customize it however he or she liked.  Personally, I think this would look good with a little embroidered heart on the front.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/basic-baby-spiral-hat\" target=\"blank\">The pattern is here on Ravelry<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvini.org\/images\/knittingmisc\/preemiehat\/Preemiehat.pdf\" target=\"blank\">here (pdf) on tvini.com <\/a> just in case I screwed up the Ravelry link.  <a href=\"http:\/\/turtlegirl76.com\" target=\"blank\">Turtlegirl<\/a>, I know you can&#8217;t see flickr at work, so pics are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvini.org\/images\/knittingmisc\/preemiehat\/basicpreemiehat-tv.jpg\" target=\"blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvini.org\/images\/knittingmisc\/preemiehat\/basicpremiehat-top-tv.jpg\" target=\"blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a baby hat, but the pattern tells how to do the very simple math to do spiraling decreases at the top of any hat, like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvini.org\/images\/style\/sg87eBoorollbrimback.jpg\" target=\"blank\">this one<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvini.org\/images\/style\/Kureyon184Bfull.jpg\" target=\"blank\">this one.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hopefully the talk will go okay tonight.  I have handouts.  Everybody loves handouts.<br \/>\n<br clear=all><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did this for tonight&#8217;s Charlotte Knitting Guild meeting, where I&#8217;m giving a talk about basic hat design in conjunction with our charity project, Hats for Alex. We&#8217;re knitting hats for the Levine Children&#8217;s Hospital. To give you a sense of size, this hat is modeled on an apple. I deliberately kept it very simple, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[37,5],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}