This afternoon Danielle was playing with her baby doll and came to me to help her put her hat on. I asked whether her baby might like a woolly hat (she gave me a sun bonnet) only her baby didn't have one, so should I crochet her one? She thought that would be a good idea.

So off to google - we love google. Get out the crochet supplies.

The kids wanted to have their own hooks and wool, and Nathan wanted me to show him how to do it. So he and I worked together doing chain stitch - it got to about 20cm before he decided to pop it away (but really wanted me to keep it for him to work on another time).


An hour and a half later amongst feeding the chickens and cooking dinner and we had a thrown together hat (wasn't following the pattern, just got the gist of getting started - hence the large holes and the not-the-best stitch and it looks more like a crocheted retro motorcycle helmet lol than a warm woolly hat!). But she's pretty happy with it.

Danielle's had some lovely imaginative play going on lately that I've really noticed it - she's branching out from her usual putting baby to bed, closing curtains, saying "shhhhhh", and closing the door. She told me this evening that her baby was sick and that she needed to take her to the doctor to get her ears checked (as she does for her glue ear lol). Being the natural medicine mama that I am I suggested that maybe her bubba would like a homeopathic remedy lol, but no, she was off to the doctor.