Tolentreasures

The weather outside is getting frightful! Why not warm up some cold little and big heads? These are literally the fastest hats EVER to knit. I can make one in an hour! And, they sure put a dent in your stash. and who among you doesn't need to stash bust? The pattern is here or here http://tolentreasures.blogspot.com/2010/12/fastest-hats-in-world-free-knitting.html or look on the sidebar under tutorials. Your local women's shelter, homeless shelter or even your local grade school could use warm hats, scarves and why not zip into the local discount store and buy some mittens to go along with them? C'mon, not only will it make someone else warm and fuzzy, you might just feel a little warm and fuzzy yourself!

Well at least The Fastest Hat I Have Ever Knitted! These hats are finished in a little over an hour. For me, that is perfect because somehow I have amassed a little stash of yarn again. Last winter I sent bags and bags and organized bags of yarn to the Dominican Republic for the ladies there that were learning to knit and crochet and somehow similar to the loaves and the fishes, the stash has multiplied again. ( OK , I'll admit that I can't enter a yarn store or craft store without helping that stash out a little) So, with a panicked feeling that I can't knit fast enough to use it all up and knowing that I have fallen way behind in the hat, scarf and mitten donation plan this year, I came up with this idea: Bigger knitting needles = less stitches. More yarn = more room in the sewing room. Faster knitting = more warm hats for little and not so little heads that need them. So... as in many of my schemes and plans I CALL DAD! Checking the prices of really big double pointed...