Links to Patterns for Scarves

Just like I have given you links to hat patterns, I will give you some scarf patterns as well.  Use any patterns you like.  Please use acrylic yarn so the scarves are machine washable and dryable.

KNIT

1.  Elegant Seed Stitch Scarf
2.  2 Row Reversible Scarf
3.  Sand Stitch Scarf
4.  Quick and Simple Cowl or Scarf
5.  Broken Garter Scarf
6.  Speed Bumps Scarf
7.  Wooly Stripe Scarf
8.  Eyelet Scarf
9.  Condo Stitch Scarf
10.  Fibonacci Biased Knit Scarf
11.  No-Purl Ribbed Scarf
12.  Infinity Lace Scarf
13.  Chevron Scarf
14.  Scrunchable Scarf
15.  Basic Scarf
16.  Easy Mistake Stitch Scarf
17.  Garter Stitch Scarf
18.  Soda Fountain Scarf
19.  Everyone's Favorite Scarf
20.  Spectacular Single Skein Scarf


CROCHET

1.  Urban Shells Scarf
2.  Fringed Scarf
3.  Winter Warmer Scarf
4.  Crossed Double Crochet Scarf
5.  Simple Scarf for a Homelss One
6.  Waffle Stitch Scarf
7.  Jazzy Striping Scarf
8.  Crocheted Scarves - there are 4 patterns on this page
9.  Diamond Lattice Chain Infinity Scarf
10.  Scrapadelic Scarf
11.  Chevron Scarf
12.  Chevron Lace Infinity Scarf
13.  Easiest Ever Infinity Scarf - you can use any weight yarn you like, I've worked this scarf in worsted weight yarn with the appropriate size hook
14.  Chevron Arrow Skinny Scarf
15.   Rainbow Chevron Scarf
16.  Scrap Love Scarf
17.  One Warm Coat Crochet Scarf
18.  Cricket's Infinity Scarf
19.  Simple Scarf


LOOM

1.  Loom Knit Scarf
2.  Easy Loom Scarf
3.  No Curl Garter Stitch Scarf

Link to Patterns for Adult Size Hats

Just like I have provided lists of links for baby and child size hats, I am now providing a list for adult sized hats.  Feel free to use any colors of yarn you like, but please ONLY use acrylic yarn.  We want yarns that are easily washed and dried with no shrinking.

This list in no way limits you to the patterns you can use.  I provide this list as a starting point.  If you have patterns you like to make, please use it.

KNIT

1.  Rolled Brim Chemo Cap
2.  Spiral Knit Cap
3.  Stretchy Knit Hat
4.  Eyelet Rolled Brim Hat
5.  The London Beanie
6.  Ribbed Caps
7.  The Inside Out Knit Chemo Cap
8.  Spiral Knit Cap #2
9.  Stretchy Adult Knit Cap
10.  Barley Beanie
11.  Basic Garter Rib Hat
12.  Gotta Have Some Hot Stuff Hat
13.  Classic World War II Watch Cap
14.  Hive Hat
15.  Simple Style Hat
16.  Ribbons & Bows Hat
17.  Christian's Hat
18.  Willow Wood Beanie
19.  Tinson Hat
20.  Slouchy Beanie
21.  Kami Hat
22.  Ribbed Hat
23.  Grandma's Favorite Garter Stitch Hat
24.  Green Wheel Mens Hat
25.  Circuitry Hat
26.  Monmouth Cap
27.  Beginner Hat
28.  Strib Hat
29.  Easy Cuffed Hat
30.  Steinway Hat
31.  Christmas Beanie
32.  Favorite Textured Knit Hat


CROCHET

1.  The Bobble Hat - this pattern uses the bobble stitch, directions are provided for this stitch
2.  Dr. Mom's Head Hugger Hat
3.  Double Crochet Hat
4.  J.T.'s Favorite Stitch Chemo Cap
5.  Front Post - Back Post Brim Cap
6.  Loving Georgia Lee Tyler Hat
7.  Adult Hats
8.  Crochet Turban
9.  I Feel Pretty Women's Crochet Hat
10.  Ribbed Crochet Hat
11.  Simple Double Crochet Hat
12.  Chestnut Beanie
13.  Northern Stripes Beanie
14.  Basic Half Double Crochet Beanie
15.  Dream Weaver Beanie
16.  Any Size Shell Stitch Hat
17.  Wings Like Eagles Hat
18.  All Grown Up Striped Slouch Hat
19.  Knock Around Hat
20.  Meandering Walk in the Woods Ripple Scarf & Basketweave Beanie Set
21.  Double Crossed Hat
22.  Sweet Stitches Beanie
23.  It's All About the Texture Hat
24.  Perfect Pink Shells Cap
25.  Just My Style Hat
26.  Navy Clusters Hat
27.  Barb's Chemo Cap
28.  Wide Ridges Hat
29.  Urban Shells Beanie
30.  Basic Beanie
31.  Granny Square Hat
32.  Crochet Waves Hat
33.  Double Crochet and Shell Hat
34.  Men's Fast and Easy Cap
35.  Basketweave Vertical Stripes Cap
36.  Amazing Grace Hat
37.  Hadley Lace Hat
38.  Men's Crochet Hat
39.  Hope Hat
40.  Gumdrop Slouchy Hat
41.  Crochet Chemo Cap
42.  Shiplap Slouch

Keeping San Mateo County Watm

For the rest of 2018, our group will continue making hats and scarves to fit people of all ages, babies to adults.

You will see the dates and times listed to the right for our hat and scarf making events for the next 3 months.

We hope you are able to join us for one or all of these events.  If you are not able to attend any of these dates, please feel free to make hats and scarves on your own.  All we ask is that you use acrylic yarns, as they are easily machine washed and dried.  You can look at other posts on this blog for lists of pattern links, or you may use any patterns you like.

If you know of any organizations that might like a donation of hats and scarves, please leave a comment on this post or contact me directly at kingc@smccd.edu


Since July, people participating in these events and those who have made hats on their own have made and donated close to 500 hats.  Thank you all for your support in this project; it has been an amazing response and we would like to keep it going.

Helpful Information

Here are a couple pdfs that might be helpful to knitters and crocheters.

Many patterns found on the internet give the hook or needle size in millimeters, which is foreign to those of us in the US.  This chart will help you figure out the US equivalent.

I get asked all the time about hat sizing and how do you know if the hat you are making is the right size.  This chart tells you, in general terms, how big around and how long a hat should be for a variety of age groups.

Here are charts for the most common abbreviations used in Crochet and Knitting patterns.

300 Baby Hats and....

Since we started this hat making project in June, we are in the neighborhood of 400 hats being donated.  There are hats being dropped off every day in our collection bins at the College of San Mateo Library and the San Mateo Athletic Club at College of San Mateo.

We cannot begin to thank everyone who has helped with this project so far.

We have collected 300 baby hats.  These pictures are of 142 baby hats washed and packaged for delivery to the UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals next weekend.  All 300 hats will be delivered next weekend.

Caps for Cancer - Updated

We have added a Saturday date, September 15th, to the list of events for this project.  The event on September 15th will run from 10am to 2pm.  We'd love to see you at one of our events in the month of September.

Hats Collected So Far

Just wanted to give you all an update on the number of hats that have been collected as of August 1st.  We have collected 206 hats so far.  Thank you all for the time you have given making these hats.  Please keep them coming. 

The San Mateo Athletic Club at the College of San Mateo has a collection basket on their reception counter.  The basket in the College of San Mateo Library will be available again once the library reopens on August 15th.  If you are in San Mateo and cannot make it up to College of San Mateo to drop off your hats, please contact me and we can make other arrangements.

72 Hats Packaged up for delivery

 61 Hats I picked up from the San Mateo Athletic Club bin

Caps for Cancer

September is Pediatric Cancer Awareness Month.  The Yarn Arts Group that meets at the College of San Mateo Library has been asked to make hats for the children (toddlers through teens) going through cancer treatments at Lucille Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford.

During August and September we will be making hats for these kids.  Every Friday, 1 - 3 pm,  through the month of September we will be having hat making events at the College of San Mateo Library.  All materials will be provided and people of all skill levels are welcome.

If you would like to make hats on your own to donate, please use soft acrylic yarn and any pattern you like.  Yarn will be available is the College of San Mateo Library once the school semester starts on August 15th.  There is a bin in the Library and the San Mateo Athletic Club if you would like to drop off hats.

More dates may be added if there is interest.  I will keep you posted.

San Francisco Bay Area Sports Team Colors

For those of you who are not big sports fans, let me help you out with a list of our teams and their colors.

Stanford Cardinals - Cardinal Red and White
UC Berkeley (Cal) - Navy and Gold
San Francisco Giants - Orange and Black
Oakland A's = Green and Gold
San Francisco 49ers - Red and Gold
Oakland Raiders - Silver and Black
Golden State Warriors - Blue and Gold
San Jose Earthquakes - Blue and Black
San Jose Sharks - Teal and Black

Links to Patterns for Knit and Crochet Kids Hats

We have finished the first round of our Warm Hats for Tiny Babies events.  Have no fear, these events
will return.  We have now been asked to make hats for the kids (toddlers through teens) going through cancer treatments at Lucille Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford.

Just like with the baby hats, I am going to be testing a number of knit and crochet hat patterns over the next couple weeks.  As I test them to make sure the patterns make sense and are correct, I will post them here.

Please feel free to use any pattern you like.  You are not limited to the patterns listed here.  Use soft acrylic yarn.  Have fun with your color choices.  Think fun bright colors, our San Francisco Bay Area sports teams colors, stripes, characters (Disney, Sesame Street, etc.).

Knit

1.  Christmas Beanie - don't let the name fool you, it has nothing to do with Christmas
2.  First Fall Hat
3.  Simple Knit Hat
4.  Fern Green Hat
5.  Simple Ribbed Hat
6.  Rolled Brim Beanie
7.  Knit Hat - instructions for straight and in the round knitting
8.  Basic Family Knit Hat
9.  Emergency One Day Hat
10.  Rolled Brim Hat - leave a comment if you would like this pattern for straight needles
11.  Backtrack Cap
12.  Garter Rib Hat
13.  Grandma's Favorite Garter Stitch Hat
14.  Hand Painted Preemie Hat - use a #3 weight yarn and size 6 needles for a child's hat or a #4 weight yarn and size 8 needles for a teen/adult hat
15.  Cupcake Hat
16.  Steinway Hat - instructions included for knitting flat and in the round
17.  Basket-Weave Baby Hat - use #3 weight yarn and size 6 or 7 needles for a small child's hat or #4 weight yarn and size 8 or 9 needles for a larger hat
18.  Swirl Hat - use #3 weight yarn and size 6 needles or #4 weight yarn and size 8 needles
19.  The Inside Out Chemo Cap
20.  Starry Noggin Hat
21.  Slip This! Hat
22.  Triple Helix Hat

Crochet

1.  Simple Striped Crochet Beanie

2.  Basketweave Brim Beanie

3.  Elmo Beanie - this pattern can be changed to Cookie Monster, Grover, Grover, Mike from Monsters Inc, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, etc. without too much effort

4.  Shell Beanie

5.  Strawberry Patch Hat

6.  Hadley Lace Hat

7.  Spiral Octagon Hat

8.  Men's Fast and Easy Cap

9.  Basic Beanie

10.  Semi-Slouch Hat

11.  Urban Shells Beanie

12.  Half Double Crochet Beanie

13.  Kennedy Hat

14.  Granny Square Beanie

15.  Simple Double Crochet Hat
16.  Everyday Bucket Hat
17.  Bubblegum Beanie - can be made in one or multiple colors
18.  Puff Stitch Beanie
19.  Perfect Pink Shells Cap
20.  Easy All HDC Beanie
21.  Textured Stripe Beanie
22.  Pinetop Beanie

2nd Warm Hats for Tiny Babies Event

This Tuesday, July 17th, we will be hosting our second Warm Hats for Tiny Babies event.  We are knitting an crocheting hats for the babies at the UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals.  The hats can be any size from micro preemie to full size newborn.

We wil be having more of these events in the future.  As soon as the dates are chosen, I will post them.

We would love to have you join us, but if you cannot you can still participate by making hats and dropping them off in the College of San Mateo Library or the San Mateo Athletic Club at College of San Mateo.

Just a few of the hats I have made

Here are just a few of the 40+  hats I have knit or crocheted from the patterns on my previous post.


KNIT

Top Row: Pattern #1, Pattern #2 (3 middle hats) and Pattern #3
Middle Row: Pattern #4, Pattern #5, Pattern #6, Pattern #13 and Pattern #16
Bottom Row: Pattern #8 (first 3 hats) and Pattern #14












CROCHET

Top Row: Pattern #1, Pattern #2 and Pattern #3
Middle Row: Pattern #6, Pattern #7 and Pattern #11
Bottom Row: Pattern #12, Pattern #14 and Pattern #17













All of these hats will be donated to the UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals for the babies.  If you would like to help out with this, please look at my previous posts for information.

Warm Hats For Tiny Babies Events

On June 20, 2018 and July 17, 2018 we will be having events in the library at the College of San Mateo to knit and crochet hats for the babies at the UCSF Benioff Chldren's Hospitals in San Francisco and Oakland.  The events will run from 11 am until 2 pm.  We will have yarn and all required tools available for you to use on those days.  If you cannot make it to either of the events but still want to help, please feel free to make hats on your own.  There is a link to my blog which contains links to several patterns for knit and crochet hats.  Please use soft acrylic yarn and do not add any embellishments ( no pom poms, tassels, buttons, ribbons, etc.).  You can drop hats off at the College of San Mateo Library.  There is a box labeled for these hats.  If you cannot make it up to College of San Mateo, please contact me and we can arrange other options.

I hope you can help us in our quest to keep these little babies warm as they grow until they can go home with their families.

Pictures of Some of the Hats I've Made

I wanted to show you pictures of some of the baby hats I have made so far.  I will tell you which pattern in my previous post was used to make each hat.  All of these patterns were very easy to follow.  Some of the knitting patterns are written to knit the hat on straight needles, ad others are written to be knit in the round.  All of the flat knit patterns can easily be adjusted to knitting in the round.  If you need help with this, please leave me a comment and I will gladly get back to you.

Knit Pattern #1                                                                                   Knit Pattern #2

Knit Pattern #5                                                                                  Knit Pattern #4
















Knit Pattern #6                                                                         Crochet Pattern #1

Crochet Pattern #2                                                                            Crochet Pattern #3

Links to Patterns for Knit and Crochet Baby Hats

Last week I was given contact information for someone who had a volunteer project.  Since I lead a knitting and crochet group in the library at the College of San Mateo, this was a project that was perfect for us.  The person I contacted volunteers at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital.  She told me they are always looking for donations of knit and crochet hats for the new babies, all sizes from micro preemie to full term newborn.  I have been looking online over the last week for different hat patterns and testing them out.

We are hoping to set up 1 or 2 dates over the summer where people can come together and knit or crochet a hat or two to donate.  These get togethers will likely be held on the College of San Mateo campus.  If you would like me to keep you updated as to when the get togethers will be scheduled or if you would like to make some hats and send them to me, please leave a comment below and I will get back to you.

These are the patterns I have tried that were very easy to follow for anyone, a new knitter or crocheter to a seasoned veteran.  Please do not add any embellishments (pom poms, tassels, buttons, ribbons, etc.) to your hats.

Knit

1.  Basic Baby Hat

2.  Perfect Premature and Newborn Unisex Baby Hat

3.  Tiny Preemie Hat

4.  Easy Knit Newborn Hat (scroll down the page for the pattern)

5.  Premature Baby Hats

6.  Premature Baby Hats

7.  Micro-Preemie Baby Hats

8.  Preemie Hats for Charity

9.  Bella Baby Hat

10.  Lazy Daisy Hat

11.  Preemie Pink Hats (available for download to knit on straight needles and in the round)

12.  Simple Lines Baby Hats for Straight Needles

13.  Skinny Rib Stretchy Baby Hay

14.  1-2-3...Baby Beanie

15.  Babbity Baby Hat

16.  Little Jay - Premature Baby Hats

17.  Cacey Baby Hats

18.  Topaz - Premature Baby Hats

Crochet

1.  Basic Beanie

2.  Beanies For Preemies

3.  Newborn Ribbed Beanie Hat

4.  Simple Preemie Cap and Preemie Puff Stitch Beanie

5.  Lisha's Hat

6.  Butterfly Newborn Hat

7.  Tiny Shells Preemie Beanie

8.  Newborn T-Bag Hat (just leave off the pom poms)

9.  30 Minute Crochet Newborn Baby Beanie

10.  Half Double Crochet Hat

11.  Olivia's Preemie Hat

12.  Basic Infant Hat - 4 Sizes

13.  Kennedy Hat

14.  Granny Square Beanie

15.  Simple Double Crochet Hat

16.  Hats, Hats, Hats

17.  Preemie Beanie Hat

Loom

1.  Baby Hat on a Round Loom

2.  Loom Knit Infant Hats

3.  How to Loom Knit

4.  Lickety Split Loom Knit Rolled Brim Hat


I will add more links as I test more patterns.