I don't know how to set up a poll, so please respond in comments.
This little hat is for a baby boy who didn't get the "Please wait forty weeks for entry" memo and came at 32-ish weeks. He is now, I think, three or four weeks old. He's exceeded birth weight and is a hefty 6 lbs, 1 oz. I expect to hear he's heading home with mama any day. So, does the hat need a pom pom?
The hat isn't as pointy as it looks in the picture. Chris' hand is wider than the diameter of the baby's head, so . . .
I am firmly and decidedly anti pom pom. It would be too much and your decreases are too pretty to cover them.
ReplyDeleteBecause yes. I am a knitting nerd (knerd?) and think decreases are a thing of beauty.
Nice work.
no pom pom! I no like pom poms! Pom Pom bad :(
ReplyDeleteI am also a member of the anti pom-pon camp. I have never seen a hat that felt needed a pom-pon.
ReplyDeleteI agree with educat, also, in that your decreases are too pretty to cover.
I wouldn't pom pom not because I'm anti-pom pom but because it might make the baby cranky.
ReplyDeleteSo says the mother of the child who refused to wear a hat until she was two.
No pom. Pom bad. Cranky baby. Cranky Risha. Bad pom, bad.
ReplyDeleteI wanted to add a measure of opposition, but then I decided that I'm in the no pom pom camp as well. With a pom pom, it looks like an outside only, strictly be in the snow kind of hat. Without it, well, the world is yours for the taking.
ReplyDeleteI am ordinarily in the no PomPom camp, but had my doubts this time as it just looks sort of plain (without a baby in it, anyway).
ReplyDeleteBut Becca, your comment (added to the other anti-pompom comments) is spot on. With the Pompom, it must be worn outdoors. Without a Pompom, it is stylish, accepted by all newborns everywhere as the equivalent of a stylish baby's pocket square.
(Knitting Knerd is funny educat. That can't go unsaid.)
I am a card-carrying member of CHAPPD, Cranky Hippies Against Pom-Pom Defamation. And I want you all to know that the board will be hearing about this. You all will be cited for unabashedly hatist behavior. Heck, this just might qualify as a hat crime.
ReplyDeleteSincerely,
Lefty McNeedsacause
Fighting For Hat Rights & Equal Treatment of Hats Regardless of Yarn, Gauge or Color
And I 9th. No pom pom. I think it would look silly, and babies have a knack for never keeping thier hats on straight. The pom would ALWAYS be crooked.
ReplyDelete...although usually, I am a pom person. :) Just not for bitty babies.
P.S. I am the gramma of 3 and a half... well the 4th is real, just won't be born till March. Melissa - your former bbsitter - was married in October and is expecting a girl in early March.
YEA!!
AND... The hat is too cute for words!!