Charlie Caps

The hat Gabe is wearing is called a 'Charlie Cap'. It was made by a woman who found this blog through mutual friends. I wanted to share her story because it touched us all to hear it. Cant wait to meet you Janet.

[From an email she wrote me]
I started making "Charlies Caps" after my dad, Charlie, passed from complications to cancer surgery. I needed to keep my mind busy, so I started crocheting and/or knitting like a maniac! Then, I took the original hats I made to our local hospital at Skyridge and donated them to the ICU and cancer treatment center, in my Dad's memory, he would have liked keeping other people warm! He wore a blue knitted ski cap every day for the 3+months he was in the hospital. It kept him warm. He always said that you loose 20% of your body heat through the top of your head. One of the most loving gestures the nurses could do for my Dad was to adjust his hat for him, when they could do little else. That's why I made hats....then Charlie's Caps just grew. I can hardly believe it, but I started keeping count of the hats for fun, and Gabes hat will be in the 9 hundreds!!!!