Hat 40!!!

Hooray for Hat 40!  Well, I have a bunch of Red Heart Baby Clouds Yarn in Orchid from a previous project I worked on a while back.  Thought it might look good in a simple hat.  It's a DC and the holes are bit large, but I still like it and hope someone might still wear it.   I want to start working on a few flowers again to add to some of the hats and this one will be one that I add a flower too.  Maybe a bright yellow or pink flower to add a little extra special to it.

Hat 39!

Got back on the hat track and have been working hard. I had been worried that I wouldn't have 20 hats by December so spent a couple weeks crocheting my little heart out and now have 20 so I can relax and go back to making hats at my leisure.

Here is hat 39 made with twining some Caron simply soft in Denim wash and some fuzzy blue and yellow yarn together. The fuzzy yarn also has a little sparkle to it so it adds a little pizazz to the hat. Not too long ago I bought a few big buttons just for the fun of it and thought it might look kinda nice on this hat. Can't tell by the pictures, but the brim isn't all the way around, but just in the front so it's sort of like a cap. Whole thing done in double crochet, and since it's a bit thick since it's 2 yarns and one is slightly fuzzy, the holes shouldn't be too bad at all.

Comfort Shawl

I have been slacking most of the year on making hats. But I have been working on a few other projects. One of them was this comfort shawl I made for a friend that is going through a hard time lately. I used Lion Brand Homespun yarn and I think the color is painted desert, but not positive, I'll figure it out next time I'm at the store, though I do know that the fringe was done in the Barley homespun. The pattern was the Lion Brand Prayer Shawl / Healing Shawl free pattern (need to sign in) which uses a HDC stitch throughout. Though the pattern calls for 2 1/2 skeins, I used a few more (6?) than that since I wanted to make the shawl extra extra long so she could really wrap herself up in it. In the end I was very happy with the colors I chose and the overall look of it.

Hat 38

Hat 38 is made with the same yarn as hat 35. The Lion Brand Homespun Yarn in Painted desert. After making a comfort shawl with it and then that other hat, I still had some left over so made a quick DC hat out of it. The colors are much nicer than I could get a picture of and it's nice and soft. Even though homespun is a bit hard to work with, I always like the results.

Hat 37

This one started out as a little beanie, but I had the frilly yarn that matched the blue I was using so well that I decided to make it a little more girly. I'm think I used a HDC stitch on it. Not positive, but it sure looks like it from the picture. Either way, cute little summer hat.

Hat 36

Hat 36! This one took me a while for no real reason other than I kept putting it down since I wasn't sure what color to put with the green. Finally settled on a brown and white yarn I had a little left of. The green is the Caron Simply Soft Eco yarn that I tend to use a lot of. I didn't use a lot of the brown and white since it wasn't as soft as the green yarn.

Happy Mother's Day!

My mom was a avid gardener. Growing up we just had our little lanai, but she filled it with all types of plants. Since she's been gone, I've tried my best to keep her plants going, which is hard considering I did not inherit her green thumb. I've lost a few plants, but in general, the lanai is still pretty full. Every time a new flower comes up, I think of her and how happy she was in her little Lanai garden. Here's some of her flowers that are in bloom today on Mother's Day.


Amaryllis , one of her favorites.



















Desert Rose

















Orchid

Hat 35!

Here's hat 35 for my mom done with Lion's Brand Homespun Yarn in Painted Desert and Barley. I had done a Comfort Shawl for a friend in these colors and had a few extra scraps which I made into this slouch hat. It looks a bit holey since I used a DC around the bottom there, but I think it'll be okay since the yarn is pretty thick, and in regular light you can't really see the holes as well.

Hat for Friend

Here is a hat I made for a friend of my Dads that was visiting. The pattern used is The Popcorn Classic Hat from Free Vintage Crochet. I have used the pattern before in Hat #11 though in that one I didn't actually do the popcorn part but just used a poofy yarn. I had thought of doing the same thing but I've never done a popcorn stitch and wanted to try it out. The yarn used is Vanna's Choice by Lion Brand Yarns in White and Sapphire, though the popcorn part I used Denim Mist.

Hat for Auntie!

I've been taking a little break making hats for mom to make hats and things for other people. I'm still working on a couple more items then it'll be back to hats for mom again.

Here's a hat I made for my Aunt. My mother in law lives with her in California and since it was a pretty cold winter (for Cali) and they go camping often, I wanted to make it nice and warm. This hat was made with Lion Brand's Thick & Quick yarn and I used a HDC stitch throughout so it would have that pretty pattern that I like.