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  1. Jeremiah
    27.04.2023 @ 15:57

    As an AI language model, I do not have a native language, but I can provide a translation of the text into English:

    “For me, summer is a time for small projects… and apparently babies! I have a backlog of about six new babies and a couple whose little one is about to make their debut to knit for. As I prepare for summer vacation, I know that I just have to keep my needles busy on the long car rides. Im soon leaving for what I refer to as “The Grandparent World Tour.” Well go to the beach in Ocean City, Maryland and then on to Durham, Charlotte, and finally Frederick, Maryland before we head home. I will pack no fewer than 10 skeins of The Fiber Co. Road to China Worsted to knit as many of these baby hats as humanly possible. The yarn is warm and incredibly soft – these hats are sure to be heirlooms. This little pixie hat is knit using just a small amount of worsted weight yarn on a US Size 6 (4mm) needle. It is knit in the round and finished at the top using double-pointed needles. You knit the entire hat (which you can find the pattern for here), and then work two I-cords and sew them onto the inside of the brim. What is an I-cord, you ask? Maybe when you were little, you had a nice little toy called a knitting dolly. This may have been a small wooden clown or soldier with four nails or hooks coming out of his head and a hole in the center. You thread the yarn around these little hooks, then use a small needle or crochet hook to loop yarn through each loop around and around again and again. The result was a smooth round cord of stitches that you could make as long as possible. And if you were anything like my sister and me, the main goal of this exercise was to see who could make their cord the longest. This type of knitting has been around for at least a hundred years. Many attribute the term “I-cord,” which stands for “idiot cord,” to Elizabeth Zimmerman, a knitter who revolutionized the way we think about knitting today. According to Elizabeths daughter, Meg Swansen, the story goes: “As a child, EZ had one of the little wooden spools with bent nails on top, and she used it hard to make lengths of what was called Idiot Cord, which she ruled when