So when I heard that we were participating in a service project called Project Purple...I had to sign up, even if I wasn't sure I could do it :)
Turned out to be a wonderful experience for me. The project was crocheting or knitting small purple hats that would be given to hospitals and then in turn given to new mothers as they were told about the period of time called purple crying that babies go through and reminded to never shake their babies.
I had crocheted long long ago and mostly forgotten how to do it. Thankfully the internet is full of helpful videos and patterns and my good friend Nanette showed me how to do it, hands on, when she came to visit :)
For a while, I was crocheting with all my spare time and loving it and I really got better at it too as time went on. I even made some hats for my kids and for me too.
On Wednesday the 10th, it was time to go and turn our hats in. I was happy with what I was able to turn in. I ended up with 21 hats to turn in...I had 22, but the very first one I did was not very good at all, it ended up on the head of one of Anna's dolls :)
One of them Isaac helped to make on the loom.
I did a couple on the loom, but most of them I crocheted.
Grace and Anna participated in our Humanitarian day too.
They were helping to create beaded lizard toys for children.
Here are most of the purple hats that were gathered,
I'm sure more were turned in after I turned in my little stack of hats.
