Preemie Hats - not a RMS challenge

Well the old year is packed away, the house has now been put back to it's pre-holiday chaos, the kid is back in school and the husband is back at the office! And in a single week I heard about a KAL of preemie hats for the Kirkwood Knittery. The kid came home with a "Knit for Needs" group at his school that was looking for preemie/baby hats, and of course there's the Guild that takes preemie hats too. So this months I'll be sneaking in the occasional hat while I'm trying to knit on the Lerwick in the chocolate which looks like black! See I'm mellowing!!!!

The Six Sigma Black Belt I live with is happy - old stash, free patterns, and my "playroom" even got cleaned out!!!! Not only that but I think I may have figured out links.....

This is called "Poppy" by Justine Turner. It was actually a grownup pattern - but with little to no modification you can turn it into a preemie hat. I guess I just wanted to prove to myself that any hat pattern can be for a preemie!! It opens up a world of possibilities.

This is a Vine Lace Cap. I found it on Ravelry - which directs you over to the Knitting Daily site. You may have to sign in to this site in order to grab a download. This is by far my favorite!!! It's a simple little lace pattern that gives a gently scalloped edge and some really fun decreases at the top!! Had an issue with rolling so started it with 2 rows of garter stitch.

This is called "Sprite" and it's by Kayla Dyches! Again just by switching to a lighter weight yarn and smaller needles you get a cute as a button preemie hat!!


And finally this is called "Cute preemie/baby Hat" and is written by Selana. This pattern is again available for free as a Ravelry download. It has been translated from German into English - which helped cause my German is way rusty! I did it because it forced me to crochet! It's probably not perfect so try not to look at the large version!!! And just a tip for all of you trying to download patterns off the net in "foreign tongues". Try using a tool called Babelfish - all you do is copy what you need to understand and paste it into a window - tell it the language and boom you are in business!!