Hats and Update

A lot has happened since my last blog post.. I was diagnosed with cancer last October. I have been going through that (a lot, mentally, physically...). I have been getting chemo. Yesterday was my fourth round. I have still been crocheting. I think it's the only thing (besides my family) keeping me going sometimes. On the days I feel good enough to crochet. 😊  This was my last project of 2023. I started getting into crocheting doll things again. And buying dolls. I should have uploaded the picture of all the dolls I bought. I bought six or seven of these size dolls at the dollar store. They usually don't have any white ones in, so I was (so excited) getting a bunch while they had some that day. 

 

I did a cradle purse, pillow and blanket. I also bought some little bottles at the dollar store. I'll have to upload that picture, too. And I bought a bigger sized doll (it came in a pack of two dolls, with bottles, and other things..). I'll have to upload all those for another post. 

This is a hexi cardigan sweater I've been working on. For me. I keep seeing them on Facebook in crochet groups I am in. I have crocheted so many baby hexagon sweaters. I remember when I translated the one youtube video of the hexagon sweater all those years ago.. It's about time I made one for myself! I just am using yarn I have since we don't have a lot of money.. You can google hexi cardigan, there's so many different ones. I'm using one I saw on YouTube. (You would think the pattern would be imprinted in my brain by now.. But..) :p

And, I have been crocheting hats. There is a cart with a bunch of hats people have donated for the chemo patients, that they can take if they want one. (My hair started falling out about a week after I started treatment.. But it's still not bad enough I need a hat all the time..)  Anyway, I said "I don't need a hat, I can crochet one. And I can crochet some more for the cart!" This one incidentally (coincidentally) is the same yarn as my sweater. :P  IT's called the "Delaney Hat".

This one is a popular one right now, for Valenine's Day. I've done two and a half of these. I have another purple one going, because I want to keep this one. :P

                                                            And a pink one I did. The pattern is called Hearts Striped in a Row.

This one is just a basic dc one I don't even remember what pattern I used, it was on my phone on day..

                                                             Another Delaney hat, in blues.

                                                      A Reversible Strands hat, for a man.

 Another Delaney Hat. I've done two in this color. One is mine. The other one, one of my MA's one day said she loved my hat where did I get it? I said I crocheted it. Well long story short, I did one just like it for her, but I tweaked the pattern and made it five stitches lenghtwise, and I added two extra rows widthwise because she tried mine on and it was a little smallish. She said her coat is blue. But I was like "Blue... There's so many blues..." And ended up settling on one just like mine. I gave it to her yesterday at my appointment (I asked if she was working, and she was). She paid me a little.  And I brought in all my other hats for the cart, too.  It's a good thing I brought my hats in, the hat stash was getting low! 

The Delaney Hat is no longer available online. :(