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Written by lakeviewcottagekids on 09/29/2022

The “Soft Hugs and Love Beanie” is Available As Part of the 2022 “Crochet Cancer Challenge”

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This Crochet Cancer Challenge was started 7 years ago by Christine Naugle at the SweetPotato3.com blog.  It was in honor of one of her beloved relative who died from cancer in 2014.  She has continued to organize and run the Challenge ever since.  This year’s Crochet Cancer Challenge runs from October 1st to October 31st, 2022.  Each day during the month of October, at least one designer and her design (sometimes more) will be featured.  The pattern of the day will be free with the Coupon Code (you must go to SweetPotato3.com to get it each day) for that day and many will continue to be free until the end of October!

The way the Challenge works is that different crochet pattern designers create a new beanie design and offer the pattern for free for at least 1 day.  Many offer their pattern for more than one day….some until October 31 or beyond.  If you choose to download the free pattern, you are pledging to make at least one hat of that pattern and donate it to a cancer patient or cancer unit.  Each designer will track how many of her patterns are downloaded and at the end of the Challenge, Christine will total the number of downloads and announce how many hats will be donated.  This is such a worthwhile project that brings a little bit of joy to the cancer patients and to those who create and donate the hats!  I love being a part of this project.  I hope you will join us!!

My contribution this year is a beanie I call “Soft Hugs and Love Beanie”.  And, it will be featured on October 11th, 2022.  With the Coupon Code, it will be available for free on Ravelry.  It is a “One Size Fits Most Women” design.  I recommend it for an Advanced Beginner crocheter.  The “Soft Hugs and Love Beanie” is made with pink/rose yarn which is the color that represents breast cancer.  Breast cancer has touched people in my family…..my aunt, 1 cousin, my mom and my youngest sister.  Here are the stories of my mom, Mary, and my sister, Julie.

Mary’s Story

My mom, Mary Schoenmann, lived to be 88 years old.  And, she died on August 31, 2014.  She didn’t die of breast cancer, it was actually a type of leukemia that took her from us…along with other ailments of old age.  But, she did have a short battle with breast cancer that she ultimately won.  

In her mid-seventies, and soon after my dad had died of lung cancer, a suspicious area was discovered by the doctors and techs during a routine mammagram.  After deliberation, the doctors decided that it was not cancer at that moment but they would monitor the area and watch to see that it didn’t change.  And, it didn’t change for 2 or 3 years.  But, eventually, they decided that the area was cancerous and something had to be done.  The decision was made that my mom would have a mastectomy…..removal of that entire breast.  So, a couple of days before Thanksgiving, the surgery was scheduled and carried out.  It was determined that the cancer had been caught in a very early stage and that the surgery would be enough.  No chemo or radiation was needed.  Thank goodness.  

Of course, there was the aftermath of the surgery, with all of the equipment needed to deal with fluid drainage, etc., but my mom made it through it all and continued on to live another 12 years.  

Julie’s Story
 
There are 5 children in my family and my sister, Julie, is the youngest.  The day before Thanksgiving in 2016 when she was 54 years old, she went in to have her routine annual mammogram.  Julie is very conscientious about this since she actually is an x-ray technician and a former mammographer.  While she was there, everything seemed fine but after the scan she and a co-worker looked over her images and had questions about an area that showed up.  But she would have to wait until after Thanksgiving to get actual results from the radiologist at the hospital.  So she went home to prepare for Thanksgiving the next day.  She and her family were coming to our house to celebrate the holiday.  And they did.  She didn’t mention anything to us about her concern over the mammogram.  But, 2 days later, I got the call from her saying that the suspicious area on the scan was cancer.  The doctors needed to do more tests but they thought it was in the very early stage, barely Stage 1, so they felt it could be dealt with by a lumpectomy and maybe radiation.  But, over the coming weeks it was found that there were other areas that were suspicious, too….all on the same breast.  
After much deliberation and many doctor appointments, she decided that mastectomy was the right answer.  But, she told the doctors, even though no cancer was found in the other breast, she wanted both removed.  
So, a few days after Christmas, she underwent a double mastectomy and breast reconstruction.  No radiation was recommended and no chemo…..although she has been taking numerous types of other preventative meds.  She is now 6 years removed from the diagnosis and surgery and, thank goodness, the cancer has not returned.  She does however, continue to deal with issues with the breast implants she has, and side effects of the various medications.  But, thankfully, we feel, up to this point, she has battled this horrible disease successfully.  
Neither my mom nor my sister, required chemo and neither lost their hair, but so many people have had that happen.  So I wanted to design a hat that a person who has lost their hair would have something that was pretty and so, so soft.
 
I hope you like my creation and make one or more for those that you know and love or for others fighting this horrible disease of breast cancer.

To find out all of the information about the Crochet Cancer Challenge, be sure to click HERE.  There you will find the designer(s) and pattern(s) of the day and the Coupon Codes to use to get your free patterns.  

Yarn

I used Red Heart Hygge yarn and the color is called Powder.  It is a #5 weight yarn.  When you go to purchase it you will notice that it is a little more expensive that other yarns you might choose.  But, it is available at JoAnn’s and I always use my JoAnn coupons for a discount of 40-50% off of a skein.  And that brings the price down to an amount that is pretty equal to  a yarn that is more moderately priced.  I love this yarn because it is so very soft which I feel is so important to the cancer patient who has lost her hair.  This hat just gives her head a wonderful soft hug.  Of course, you could use another #5 weight yarn but be sure it is very soft.  

The design is very basic but has a lovely feminine edging that I think is quite lovely.  

After getting the pattern Coupon Code from Christine at the SweetPotato3 blog, click on the button below to get to the pattern!  The button will not be active until the day that my pattern is featured, October 11th.  Then when you go there and use the code it will be free until October 31st!

Click to Get to Pattern on Ravelry
 
 
 

So, I hope you check out all of the patterns and make lots of them for the Challenge!!!  

Thanks for your participation and support of this great cause!!

 

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4 comments

  • Cat has written: 10/11/2022 at 8:21 am Reply

    In the border row, after you chain 3 and skip 1 stitch, do you sc in the next stitch?
    Thank you for such a beautiful pattern!

    • lakeviewcottagekids has written: 10/19/2022 at 3:38 pm Reply

      I’m so sorry that that part wasn’t in the pattern. It should be a slip stitch in the next stitch. I am fixing that in the pattern. Thanks for contacting me.

  • Rebecca Glass has written: 10/12/2022 at 12:08 pm Reply

    It looks to me like the border round uses a slip stitch to join the ch3 back to the brim after skipping the stitch. Is that correct?

    • lakeviewcottagekids has written: 10/19/2022 at 3:36 pm Reply

      Yes, I’m so sorry that was not in the original pattern. I am fixing that momentarily. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

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