Pandemic projects: Boys get hand-dyed, knitted hats – making natural dyes becomes South Hill family's project

Teddy Riggs, 5½, scaled a backyard tree, while his 3-year-old brother, Danny, trimmed the grass with a pair of children’s scissors.

Albert, 8 months, watched the action from his mother’s arms.

Kate Kearney didn’t need to worry about her sons feeling the January chill – they were all wearing woolen caps which she knitted for them.

Though Kearney wielded the knitting needles, the handmade, hand-dyed hats were a family pandemic project.

“My mother taught me to knit when I was a kid, but I didn’t really get into it until college when I had a friend who was into knitting,” Kearney said.

Over the years she made scarves, stuffed

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