This is a quick and easy pattern designed for making baby hats for donation to our local hospital. Each baby born there goes home with a purple hat as part of the National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome’s “Period of PURPLE Crying Program,” designed to increase awareness of normal infant crying and the dangers of shaking an infant. For more information, see www.dontshake.org or purplecrying.info. More free baby hat patterns are available from clickforbabies.org.