May I offer you a chicken hat in these trying times?

Sojourner Truth known for being the first African American women to win a lawsuit in the US taught knitting to former enslaved folk as a way for them to support themselves.

In WW2 knitters were hand knitting socks for soldiers on the front lines. The AIDS Memorial quilt was created to honour and remember over 300 people who died during the AIDS crisis.

And I bring all this up because a knitted hat pattern has been released called “Melt the Ice” and it’s being used to help those affected by ICE (video is by juliesaw)

Here is a link to the pattern and there’s also a crochet version available.

First lace and first cable-work project! This pattern. Really fun time.

Almost certainly the wrong kind of yarn for stitch definition (felted, hairy) but I loved the color and felt stubborn.

[Image ids: all photos show different angles of the same green knit hat in a fuzzy, lightly flecked yarn. Cables and lacework create a pattern of leaves and vines climbing up to the crown. end ID]

Behold… my homemade Scratch beanie!

501st Jaig Eyes hat.

Completed ‘Chestnut Bonnet’, knit in fyberspates vivacious yarn in Lundy Island colourway. Bonnet modelled by my partner who has a perfectly normal sized head - if you have a smaller head I would recommend reducing the number of chart repeats by 1 so the bonnet ends by your ears (instead of each end meeting under your chin!).