Why this Charity Pattern?
I wanted to sell a small, not too hard pattern to raise funds for my library, because, you never know, the city might run out of funds, cut back on workers hours, and we might lose some of our State certification. Horrors, I’d have to buy all my own living books for Charlotte Mason-ish homeschool, instead of ordering them through the SAILS network and having them show up as soon as if I’d bought them on Amazon.
Then I’d have to store them.
In my own apartment.
Well, we can’t have that!
So for every pattern you buy, I’ll donate $5.00 to the Friends of the Attleboro Public Library. That’s the non profit group that is able to accept money from regular people. They chip in for museum passes, books, and programs, like the ballet this summer in the large print room.
Why this brim
I took the motif for the brim from the decorated windows on the second and third floors. (note from 2023: Mrs Rhylinger tells me it is a Roman Latice.) I keep finding the box with a cross and X in it all over town: in the grating at the YMCA, in the front porch of the literacy center, and in the cement in the Masonic Temple. Sometimes it’s a square, sometimes a rectangle, sometimes a parallelogram.
On the hat, it’s a simple knit/purl pattern, made easy to follow with a chart, then peaceful 2/2 rib for the top. Not a chart knitter? No problem, the written instructions are complete. The natural proportions of the knit stitch made this hat brim full of rectangles. Phew, I’m glad the windows aren’t just square.
This was the first pattern I put together with the Stitchmastery editor. Oh my, how much easier it made it all!
I paid my model in doughnuts – we got up earlyish on a Saturday in March to catch the early slanted light, then walked over to Dunkin’.
How I paid my models (My family)
I paid my model in doughnuts – we got up earlyish on a Saturday in March to catch the early slanted light, then walked over to Dunkin’.
