Twenty inches around, to be exact. This has always been something I’ve known, even when she was a newborn. When they did head circumference measurements, she was always in the 95th percentile. I can’t tell you how many shirts she hasn’t been able to wear because we can’t get them over her head.
I made myself a hat recently.
I picked up a skein of Manos del Uruguay in color 113 this past week. I had a gift certificate to a yarn store and I’d never used it before, so I thought I’d try it out. I love the color (the picture isn’t as nice as the real thing) and the yarn is fine to work with. I cast on 76 stitches on US size 6 (I think) and made it. It’s a little long, but better too long than too short. I have quite a bit of the yarn leftover, so I thought I’d make LouLa a matching hat.
I measured her head, then measured my gauge on the hat, and measured my head. My head is an inch bigger than LouLa’s. I even had her try my hat on. It fit, though it was too long. I know that little kids have big heads and that it’s just the way they are, but she’s still got a nice melon on her. I’ll cast on 72 inches for her hat and go from there.
