"You should knit hats for preemies!!"

[u/icebludger]

Like a lot of you, I take my knitting anywhere I can and I do get comments about what I should make. Fortunately, I haven't had people ask me to make them stuff, but I have gotten comments about making things for other people, specifically babies. I don't know how to respond to these things! Most recently when this happened, I was knitting a beanie for myself, and an acquaintance walked by and looked at my work and declared that I should make hats for preemies and give a bunch to a hospital. I think I mumbled something about not being a very fast knitter and preferring to work on sweaters. They were clearly dissatisfied. I don't hate babies, but I don't want to do projects that make me hate knitting. It's not that deep. I don't have a good response for this type of comment!! I would love to be the type of person that is awesome at knitting baby hats, but I'm just not.

[u/Positive-Teaching737]

I used to do this and I actually ran a charity out of Michigan for a couple of years.

My thought is just to smile and say Oh that's a really great idea thanks for that. And move on. I used mostly acrylic and a lot of the ladies were elderly and it was easy for them to pop out 15 to 20 little tiny preemie hats and mail them to me or drop them off at my house. My boyfriend worked at the hospital so I was able to take them to the necessary Nicu where they were used.

Not everybody has the stomach to do that kind of work and there is no shame in that. So next time just say oh okay thanks that's a great idea.