talking about the Exeter Hat for Bill took me back to when I started this whole, perhaps has not silly, knitting hats for fellow cruisers. The year was 2013 and I had been back cruising on Royal Caribbean for a couple of years. The ship was the Radiance and I was going to be leaving the ship at the end of the cruise after doing a number of back to back to back cruises and headed home to Germany. Early in this last cruise, I was talking to the hotel director who mentioned going on vacation (New York) at the end of the cruise and how he wasn’t going to be prepared for the cold. I looked at him – would you like a hat so at least your head would be warm?
he was pleased. In return, he mailed (it must have been hats) to Maus who was going to school in NYC. Then someone else asked for a hat –
which I knit the next day because it was easy.
and didn’t think any thing more about it.
Fall of 2014 rolled around and it was cold on the North Atlantic
easy stripes
then there was the Splendour in fall of 2015 where there were several people headed back to places seriously colder than Venice or Dubai
since England can get cold
I didn’t capture Egbert or Tony in their hats –
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- Egbert’s Hat
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- Tony’s hat
But I still think this one is the cutest.
Baby hitchhiker hat with baby
That was when we first met. 2013 circumnavigation.
However, we were not at D back then. I remember Clint and Zandra talking about Juan Diego at the time. So when we cruised back from Vancouver on Radiance last September we got to know Juan Diego very well.
That baby totally steals the show!
I love this.
That baby hat is adorable, as is the little person wearing it. Vicki
Love the photos and hats!!
I hope you’re doing well health wise and in all ways.
Thinking of you,
Oh, I agree. And the.baby just adds to the cuteness factor.
Lovely mementos for lovely people – you are such a fast knitter! This is also another reason why hats are such a good take-along project. They don’t have to come home, and they make people happy.
I wore my new hat to the propane station yesterday and my fellow pumpers were jealous of course….we live in a co-op R V park so I volunteer twice a week to pump propane.
Life is GoOD….
Wow !!! another HAT..