For no particular reason I can think of, I started making hats.
Actually, maybe there are a few reasons.
The world is on fire and we’re being led by someone who thinks we are fodder and machine parts.
I got diagnosed with an aneurysm out of the blue and now want to think about my legacy
It’s fun to see things shape up under my hook and to visualize what could happen.
It gets me through the boring bits of podcast and Netflix binges and keeps me from taking anything too seriously.
Maybe those are some of the reasons I started making hats.
I am up to six now, with more shaping themselves in my unfinished projects basket and my mind’s eyes.
Who knows where this will stop? I’m making an angler fish for this one, and a sugar glider for the orange one behind it. Go by, mad world
Wendy Welch: Books, Yarn, Cats, Opioids 
I would say it’s healthier than buying a gun, which I know you wouldn’t do, because you’re a Quaker. I respect Quakers immensely. I am a knitter rather than a crocheter, but both are hard for me to do, because of chemo-induced neuropathy in my hands. I’d say that anything which lifts our spirits and engages our attention during this period of madness is worth doing. If it also makes people laugh, all the better.
Amen, Sister
I’m sorry to hear about your health and those are adorable hats! I esp like the one Wendy is wearing!
Thanks! I’m find of them all but I do love that red scarfed possum
I liked the possum best because a whole possum family came to visit in our suburban backyard one morn last week! Daddy, pregnant Mama, plus one more and they were so big they looked like cats at first! I looked outside at 7:30 am and did a double take!
I love them!❤️
Thanks. Me too. I am not sure what they are going to do in life, but they are already brightening up our sitting room.
Hats are therapeutic! Comparatively instant gratification, for starters. I got through the pandemic lockdowns knitting hats for kits passed out by a Street Medicine organization in BigIndustrialCity. Now I make them for kids in the Navajo Nation as well. As much as I’d love to create world peace and justice for all, making hats is what I can do. I use oddments of “legacy” yarn, which adds a bit of ‘green’ to the enterprise and ensures that no two hats are the same, even after making hundreds of them. Turns out that even dimestore Santa Claus yarn can make a handsome hat spiraled with black. …do not know how a possum hat would go over, but…