Hat

It is cold here as I mentioned in an earlier post. My mom has knit me a few sock hats over the last few years including one that would fit under my motorcycle helmet. Unfortunately they are all lost, stolen, or kidnapped awaiting a ransom of pop-tarts and chocolate milk. (Yes, that was the ransom my son demanded Sunday as he nabbed it to take home with him.) Instead of asking for another i have decided to make my own. That's right, I can knit, crochet, sew, cook, clean, launder, and do all the other so called "women's work." One of the benefits of being raised by my mom and having three sisters. I am pretty much self-sufficient. (The sewing earned me a lot of extra $$$ in the army when I was living in the barracks. We soldiers are hard on our clothes lol) I decided to crochet my hat. I am more comfortable with crochet than knitting and by making it myself, i can ensure it will be big enough and be long enough to fold over in the watch-cap style. Here is my beginning. I've chained 50, did one SC for the turn and am now SC in each stitch. My idea is to make a rectangle and then do a permanent type of basting stitch to seam it. I found out earlier that the sailor's watch-caps of old were made in this way except they were knit. Very few were made in the round due to the fact that it left a hole in the top and I guess the magic loop hadn't been invented yet.