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.
Wow, she does have a big head. Well, hopefully when she’s done growing her head will be bigger than yours so she won’t always be stealing your hats.
Those colors are so pretty.
Comment by Liz — January 3, 2008 @ 12:30 pm |