The DU Hat and Glove Challenge (Do you knit? crochet? Or do you have an old hat laying around?)

[DonRedwood]

19. wow...those must be very treasured by the lucky people who get them!

I still have the hat my mom crocheted me in (gasp) 1974. My dad was in the hospital for almost a year and she learned how to crochet. She's sit in his room, hour after hour, through the night usually, crocheting away.

The hat she made me is one of those long skiing hats...three or four feet long with a tassle on the end--made to wrap around your neck on a cold day sledding in Valcez. She had made it out of all the leftovers from her afghan making frenzy she went through. If she had leftovers she'd knit on my hat until the yarn ran out, then put it away until the next afghan project left some more leftovers.

It is a little bit homely but I must love it since I've kept it for song. (even though I didn't wear it very much as a kid...it was kind of embarrassing...she did a lot of baby afghans and always had leftover pink. I think my hat too much pink for me to be comfortable with at age 10. :0)