My hat model is asleep so you'll have to make due with a picture of the finished product sans cute girl. :) No matter; this hat is for a boy anyway. Heh.
If you haven't guessed, it's been a busy week for me craft-wise, but the more time I spend crafting (mostly after the kids are in bed or during naps!), the more whole I feel. So, it's been an AWESOME week for me this week. :)
This hat came out of a Google Chat session combined with a Facebook link... technology, I tell you what. Originally I saw this hat on a blog (Tot Toppers) after following a Facebook link posted by a friend. Discussion with another friend who thought that her son and the son of a mutual friend of ours would be cute with Dino hats led to us searching on etsy.com and eventually led to me remembering this hat through Tot Toppers and finding the pattern on etsy.com. Too fun!
The hat is very basic but the spikes were new for me; I've done spikes, but these are "double-sided", or done in the round... on double-pointed needles... holy cats. I actually like DPNs and have done full small projects on them, but... it would help if I had lighter-weight and sharper-pointed DPNs in the size I needed for these spikes considering how small they are, but I made do with what I had, knowing that making this hat wouldn't require purchasing new needles. (To do the next one, I will probably purchase a new set of wood DPNs! Ha!)
Very fulfilling to complete this hat tonight and ship it off tomorrow. I hope the eventual recipient (who won't receive it for a few weeks yet) has a roaring good time with his hat. Grin.
erin
ps. I'm learning more and more that I need to find a much better place to take my pictures... outside, most likely... too bad I'm always finishing stuff and taking pictures at night!
If you haven't guessed, it's been a busy week for me craft-wise, but the more time I spend crafting (mostly after the kids are in bed or during naps!), the more whole I feel. So, it's been an AWESOME week for me this week. :)
This hat came out of a Google Chat session combined with a Facebook link... technology, I tell you what. Originally I saw this hat on a blog (Tot Toppers) after following a Facebook link posted by a friend. Discussion with another friend who thought that her son and the son of a mutual friend of ours would be cute with Dino hats led to us searching on etsy.com and eventually led to me remembering this hat through Tot Toppers and finding the pattern on etsy.com. Too fun!
The hat is very basic but the spikes were new for me; I've done spikes, but these are "double-sided", or done in the round... on double-pointed needles... holy cats. I actually like DPNs and have done full small projects on them, but... it would help if I had lighter-weight and sharper-pointed DPNs in the size I needed for these spikes considering how small they are, but I made do with what I had, knowing that making this hat wouldn't require purchasing new needles. (To do the next one, I will probably purchase a new set of wood DPNs! Ha!)
Very fulfilling to complete this hat tonight and ship it off tomorrow. I hope the eventual recipient (who won't receive it for a few weeks yet) has a roaring good time with his hat. Grin.
erin
ps. I'm learning more and more that I need to find a much better place to take my pictures... outside, most likely... too bad I'm always finishing stuff and taking pictures at night!
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