I’m sitting at home with knitting needles in my hand making hats! I alternate between knitting and crocheting. Crocheting is much faster but now I am knitting. As well as making poppies for the Remembrance Installation at church, my group are busy making hats.
Why? Well, this year we are having a Christmas Tree Festival in the first week of December and each group who uses the church building have been invited to decorate a tree all within a set theme. This year it is: ‘Christmas carols, hymns or songs’.
So, our tree is a Hat Tree! We are using a garden pyramid trellis which will be covered in individual green hats, some with colourful pompoms to look like baubles. Not quite the traditional tree. Once the festival is over and we have packed away our trees, all the hats we have made are going to support a couple of local charities in the area.
So why do we wear hats – to keep us warm in the winter, to keep the sun off our heads in summer, as part of our uniform, at weddings or when we attend church or just because!
The Christmas carol/song/hymn that I linked to our Christmas Hat Tree goes with my vision of why we wear woolly hats – to keep us warm – and during Advent and Christmas we often see people going from door to door, maybe with lanterns or torches, wearing woolly hats singing carols. Maybe your town, village or city have a Christmas Tree lighting ceremony and again the image is of people wearing woolly hats and singing.
Here we come a-carolling
Among the leaves so green;
Here we come a-wand'ring
So fair to be seen.
Love and joy come to you,
And to you glad Christmas too;
And God bless you and send you a Happy New Year
And God send you a Happy New Year.
So the hats from our tree, which will be going out to the needy in our area, are a symbol of us sending warmth, peace and love this Christmas time.
Happy carol singing and God Bless You all.
Linda Cooke
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