What Were You Thankful For?

I was thankful for getting to see from a front row seat the generosity of a wonderful blogger and heart of gold gal, Dianne, of   Dianne's Dishes.

Dianned dropped me a note a little while back expressing her support of mine and Aunti Miranda's NICU hat project and asked if I would be interested in a donation. Dianne is moving and instead of packing up all of her yarn she decided to cull through it and wondered if she could send me a care package of sorts.

OF COURSE!

I was very moved by the gesture but knocked on my butt when the box arrived:

 

I couldn't believe Dianne's generosity. I honestly expected a small box of small scraps or balls, not this orgy of fun yarns with so many of them being really cute baby-friendly colors.  See the layer you're looking at?  That's just the top layer. There's another layer of more underneath it.

Dianne, thank you so much. I am touched.  Our babies will be both warm and stylish in the hats you've all but sent them.  I feel so blessed to have been introduced, by blogging, to a warm and sharing person like you.

Today is December first, so even though I'll be blogging the hats from Dianne's yarn in the upcoming months, here's what Aunti and I were up to November:

 

A few of Aunti's Christmas projects, are these cute, or what?  I see little 3 lb elves dancing in their beds and little Christmas tree-heads for great holidy photos.

 

From my knitting needles, the reindeer hat again, a half dozen santa hats (the small one in the right bottom corner will fit a 1 1/2 lb baby and we do have on in the unit right now), above that a pair of socks to match one of my stripe dhats, my version of a Christmas tree in the lower left corner on top of a few striped elf hats, and in the middle three more of Aunti's striped elf hats.

Whew!

 

Aren't these double cute and very Dr. Seuss feeling?  They're for two unrelated bubbas who happened to be born very near to each other, both spent weeks and weeks on vents, both were extubated within a day of each other, and they both sit side-by-side on their row. We nicknamed them "Thing 1" and "Thing 2".  Aunti Miranda took the nicknames and danced around the floor with them to create these adorable little hats.  She did an awesome job, didn't she? I love the way the thin black strips really accent the gray and green colors.

And we're not through with Chrismtas yet. More pics in the coming few weeks.

Comments

[Dianne]

I'm so glad you liked the yarn! I know you'll turn it in to adorable little creations like the ones below! I think you're making me blush a little! ;)

[Kalyn]

That is so cool. She always struck me as being very nice, and obviously it's true!

[MyKitchenInHalfCups]

How really neat. What a great gift!
You're doing such fun things for the kids and families!

[Mimi]

I love these! I am a member of a knitting group who also does hats for babies at our local hospital. I can't wait to show the pics of these to our ladies and see what they come up with! We did Christmas themed hats for our December babies, but nothing this elaborate. And I, too, am always blown away by the generosity of people who donate yarn and time to projects like this.

[megan]

How very sweet of Dianne! A great cause to donate in for sure. I love the tree hats and the elve's hats. I cant even imagine a
1 1/2 lb baby. Bless you for the work you do!

[kimberly]

Those hats are just adorable! I know the parents of these kiddo's are thankful for the generous gift of warmth, cuteness and your time for making such cute hats.

[Glenna]

Dianne--oh I LOVE it! Can't wait to use it as soon as I get through the doc santa hats. Thank you so much!

Kalyn--Yes! Very nice!

Tanna--Thank you. I almost feel guilty that I get so much joy and goodness out of it. It's supposed to be for the babies but they really have been a catalyst for so much sharing and good will it's benefitting all of us, I think.

Mimi--That's wonderful! I had no idea!! We should form some kind of online group.

Megan--it's so much fun! I love the look on the parents faces because it's all about "this is my cute baby" not "this is my cute SICK baby". You know?

Kimberly--aaaahhhh, that means a lot to me coming from you after having had Violet go through the NICU. Thank you.