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.