"Me time" means I get some thinking time and when I get thinking time I like to keep my hands occupied. I sew, I make cards, I crochet and I knit. Nothing too complicated.
I've made dozens of these hats over the years. I knit them for The Sailors Society. This brilliant charity helps seafarers at sea and ashore. Looking around my sitting room I'm pretty sure that many things (or their components) were brought to this island by sea. Wood, computer parts, cotton, even the ingredients for paint are imported and most will have come by sea. Next year The Sailors Society will celebrate two hundred years of providing chaplaincy, welfare and health services (and a lot more besides) to seamen all over the world. They are well known for giving woolly hats to sailors and in fact they give out over 10,000 hats each year so they need quite an army of knitters.
And yesterday's picture? I've made one small change to it. I'm not going to show you the completed cards as a few readers may get one of them! (With apologies to anyone who gets the collywobbles at any whiff of C******* before mid-November.)
I too have knitted hats for the SS in the past. Currently I am knitting for the local C.......s Tree Festival!
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