Crista Hecht Photography

October 5, 2008 - Katie Rosenberg, 18, a Boston University freshman from Melbourne, Fla., knits while selling her handmade hats for the first time at the Baked Fresh Festival hosted by the South End Open Market in Boston, Mass. She started knitting hats in March when she was doing a project for her high school in Florida. "I was doing embryonic stem cell research and we had to produce something besides a paper," she says. "I wanted to attach it to knitting, so I made chemo caps for patients going through chemo therapy and donated 15 to 20 hats to a local hospital." Photo by Crista Hecht.


October 5, 2008 - Knitted hats sit on a table for sale at the Baked Fresh Festival hosted by the South End Open Market in Boston, Mass. Katie Rosenberg, 18, a Boston University freshman from Melbourne, Fla., was invited by the South End Open Market staff to sell her handmade products. This was the first time Rosenberg sold her hats at a market. She developed her own design and has worked to perfect it over the last few months. "It takes me about a day to make one hat," she says. "The most I've ever made in one day is three hats, but I basically knitted all day and that was it." Photo by Crista Hecht.


October 5, 2008 - Katie Rosenberg, 18, a Boston University freshman from Melbourne, Fla., collects money from Morgan First, left, while Lauren Michaud, right, gets her money out to pay for a hat at the Baked Fresh Festival hosted by the South End Open Market in Boston, Mass. This was the first time Rosenberg sold her handmade knitted hats. "I was very excited to sell my first hat and to have money," Rosenberg says. "I sold somewhere around 17 or 18 hats and made about $200." Photo by Crista Hecht.


October 5, 2008 - Katie Rosenberg, 18, a Boston University freshman from Melbourne, Fla., pets Bailey, a golden retriever, while his owner, Sam Hoyt, tries on one of the knitted hats that Rosenberg is selling at the Baked Fresh Festival hosted by the South End Open Market in Boston, Mass. Photo by Crista Hecht.


October 6, 2008 - Katie Rosenberg, 18, a Boston University freshman from Melbourne, Fla., does chemistry homework in her dorm room in Boston, Mass. Rosenberg started knitting hats in March when she was doing an embryonic stem cell research project for her high school in Florida. She wants to study Neuroscience and Psychology and work in Alzheimers Research after college. Photo by Crista Hecht.